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Software, reverse engineering and the lawSoftware, reverse engineering and the lawPosted May 4, 2005 19:27 UTC (Wed) by littlejohn (guest, #17354)Parent article: Software, reverse engineering and the law
I'm European and there's a friend of mine who is writing a decompiler. From the article above there are no considerations for people who build tools which could be strictly related to reverse engineering. From my experience a debugger and a decompiler are more than enough for almost any reverse engineering task, and these tools are far from being unlawful. But how easy could it be to prove a decompiler is used for legal (referring to the current law) tasks?
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Software, reverse engineering and the law Posted May 4, 2005 20:22 UTC (Wed) by MathFox (guest, #6104) [Link] Document what you are doing with it!
In general: you don't have to prove your innocence, in a civil case "the preponderance of evidence" has to show your wrongdoing; in a criminal case the proscecutor has to prove your guilt "beyond reasonable doubt". The mere presence of tools like "objdump" and "gdb" is no indication of illegal activities.
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