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In <BuDB8o.3rK@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:

>What you want to do is reverse engineering and is usually illegal.
>Nobody cares about what you do in your basement, but some will
>care about what tools are sold for that purpose.

>I think this can you give hint about what to look for (every hacker
>probably did some reverse engineering).

>As for a good tool to do that, because of the context, you may be limited
>to either a good debugger or some hard to find programs.  

Reverse engineering is not illegal according to a recent ruling by the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  The 9/7/92 issue of InfoWorld had
an article concerning this.

Sega Enterprises had filed a copyright infringment suit against 
Accolade Inc. claiming that Accolade had reverse engineered its
game software that runs on its home video game systems in order
to produce their own games for the Sega systems.  Sega also sought
an injunction against Accolade.

However, on appeal, the decision was overturned.

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D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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