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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by Sephr on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:20PM (#22633245)
While it is definitely possible to reverse-engineer and modify the software/firmware of existing proprietary GPS systems, I'd argue that the distinction between this and changing an open source project is not meaningless.

Changing a couple lines of well-documented source code in an open source project before compiling is arguably a much lower bar to pass.

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Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra... by saagarjha on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:24PM (#22633263)
It depends. For most reasonable firmware, trying to figure out how to compile the stupid thing is generally harder than finding and byte patching a condition in a binary blob.
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