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Re: reverse engineering (was jumperless Ethernet)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Jung)
Mon Feb 12 20:03:44 1996
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From: Wolfgang Jung <woju@keep.in-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 21:53:10 +0100
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> > You might try reengineering the setup software (But some vendors tell you
> > you are not allowed to)
> > Creative Labs does this :-(
>
> How can anybody prove you've reverse-engineered a certain piece of software?
> Especially in a case like this, you could just as well have found the
> register and the data you have to send by systematic probing. If the
> card tends to hang on many of the write attempts, you could just
> hard-reset it every time by having your program interrupt the power.
> (2 transistors and a spare DTR line or the like will probably do the job.)
Sure :-)
But at least they try to prevent you from doing it ..
> Next, you'll probably have to sign nondisclosure agreements just for buying
> hardware...
Hope this never happens...
