• moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    1 day ago

    Right to repair prevents these sorts of law suits

    But that’s only for companies selling the hacking as a paid service. There is zero standing to sue a guy hacking his own car and providing the info for free on the Internet (or, eg, at defcon).

    Only thing they can do is void your warranty

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      21 hours ago

      They will claim decryption of proprietary code or something that violates Digital Rights Controls

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        14 hours ago

        People do that all the time. It’s not illegal to reverse engineer something you own (at least in the US).

        It might be illegal to sell something from what you’ve reverse engineered

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          3 hours ago

          It’s not, I take things apart and repair them all the time. Those VOID stickers mean nothing. However the DMCA is expliclit on decryption, and that would be what they’d charge people with.

          The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) makes it illegal to circumvent technical measures (e.g., encryption, copy protection) that prevent access to copyrighted materials, such as computer software or media content.