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- From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
- Subject: Re: studying executables
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- Organization: University of North Texas
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:34:10 GMT
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- In <BuDB8o.3rK@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
-
- >What you want to do is reverse engineering and is usually illegal.
- >Nobody cares about what you do in your basement, but some will
- >care about what tools are sold for that purpose.
-
- >I think this can you give hint about what to look for (every hacker
- >probably did some reverse engineering).
-
- >As for a good tool to do that, because of the context, you may be limited
- >to either a good debugger or some hard to find programs.
-
- Reverse engineering is not illegal according to a recent ruling by the
- 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9/7/92 issue of InfoWorld had
- an article concerning this.
-
- Sega Enterprises had filed a copyright infringment suit against
- Accolade Inc. claiming that Accolade had reverse engineered its
- game software that runs on its home video game systems in order
- to produce their own games for the Sega systems. Sega also sought
- an injunction against Accolade.
-
- However, on appeal, the decision was overturned.
-
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- D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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