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[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right to repair prevents these sorts of law suits

But that's only for companies selling the hacking as a paid service. There is zero standing to sue a guy hacking his own car and providing the info for free on the Internet (or, eg, at defcon).

Only thing they can do is void your warranty

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They will claim decryption of proprietary code or something that violates Digital Rights Controls

People do that all the time. It's not illegal to reverse engineer something you own (at least in the US).

It might be illegal to sell something from what you've reverse engineered