Re:Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib beca...
by eli on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:39PM
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A private (that is, not published) API Key sure sounds like a protection measure to me.
Re:Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib beca...
by kenbellows on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:21PM
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It doesn't sound like the published API key is the problem here. They can revoke the key, and other users of Snaphax can put their own in the code. I think the larger issue is the reverse engineering of their protocol.
Well, the specific thing the DMCA does is to stop circumvention of an "effective technological protection measure". The crazy thing here is that there is no such measure: no use of encryption or scrambling -- or even passwords! -- that I can see, just simply using a network service's exposed command set. That makes it different to most (if not all) of the case law your link mentions.