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Shitenshi posted:And I'm probably full of poo poo on this one because my source is Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure reverse engineering machines back in the day, even just for fun, wasn't illegal. Its not illegal, but it won't stop angry lawyers from making menacing noises at you. Back in the 90s I was part of a project reverse engineering the wire protocol of an industrial automation system that used basically an RS485 type bus with a custom crapily encrypted wire protocol. We literally started off with the oscilliscope (to work out the timing since it wasnt latched, and the voltages etc) then sat about trying to brute force our way through the utterly amaturish encryption. Then we started rolling out cards that let you replace a $10K controller with insane priced software with a $1K computer and whatever the gently caress you want software. Ho boy did legal threats start flying around. And then they brought us out v  v(Which is exactly what we where after)
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