Re: Reverse engineering issue

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On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:42:19AM -0700, Jay Cox <jaycox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are no lawayers here. But I'd say there is no such problem. In
> > europe it's legal (for the purposes you said), but in the us you could
> > come in jail (at least its not legal).
> 
> Actually as long as you don't crack any kind of encryption it should be perfectly
> legal to do in the states.

I thought the law explicitly disallows any kind of reverse engineering
(because it breaks intellectual property rights)?

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