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A comment on Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware Protection (2017). Parent comment

Re:Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware P... by zaarn on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:33AM (#17591107)
You are aware that in this case you become legally vulnerable to lawsuits from the issuing party, yes?

(Or if not in the US, there is plenty similar laws around, the EU makes you legally touchable the moment you are aware that it's a copyright violation and don't react ASAP for example)

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Re:Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware P... by paulie_a on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:06PM (#17596778)
Yes I am aware, but I am also not concerned. Honestly I can't count how many notices I've received over the last 22 years. Sometimes legitimate and sometimes not. They all go straight into the garbage. I received one when I was out of town and there was no possibility someone else was using my internet connection.
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Re:Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware P... by zaarn on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:21AM (#17598091)
It's not good advice to give others either way even if you got lucky. Or rather, it's not good advice specifically because you got lucky. Consumer ISPs are very quick to shut down your entire connection if you get too bothersome with DMCA requests incoming.
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