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[–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (4 children)

That is explicitly prohibited by virtually all proprietary software license agreements.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Which makes it a breach of contract, but not illegal.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I have news for you about breaches of contract. They can be sued over.

    Also DMCA 1201 is a thing which often makes reverse engineering a felony.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, as should be obvious by me being a random dude on the internet.

    • you can kind of sue about breaches of contract, but that's civil law, not criminal law, so not illegal
    • unless I profit from that or use it to defame , they might have a hard time demonstrating their damages from that breach
    • I didn't sign any contract with over their firmware anyway, and it will be hard to prove for them that I did, so kiss my ass
    • I'm not in the US, neither is so the DMCA can kiss my ass as well
    • there are people who do this kind of work above-board, mostly in academic contexts, with their name attached to it, and as far as I can see they still walk around freely
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