Breach of privacy? You put it out there, albeit in code, but
you put it out there. You don't want me to crack it, don't
put it out there. Breach of privacy? Huh? Huh?
MacN
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Ed Gerck wrote:
>
> However, if the message is encoded or encrypted and I manage to read the
> plaintext then I can no longer claim I had no choice and no intent. Actually,
> I must have spent time and work in order to break your privacy -- so, I must
> have done it with intent.
>
> "Reverse engineering" is done with the intent to break the protection built
> into the product, between the user and the technology behind the software.
> If this is done for your own private purposes and you tell no one, there is
> not even a way for the producer to reach you. However, if you are
> Microsoft and you reverse engineer code of a competitor (as MS did, with
> Stac -- 1994) and stealthly use it in your own Microsoft product (as MS
> did, in its DoubleSpace product) ... then, is that OK? Should that breach of
> privacy be allowed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed Gerck
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