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Re:Nike+ FuelBand SE BLE Protocol Reversed by ta33 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:27PM (#8969802)
on a related note, is the act of decompiling jars legal if the software was obtained legally, ie bought?
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Re:Nike+ FuelBand SE BLE Protocol Reversed by evilsocket on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:37PM (#8969831)
http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60/is-...
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Re:Nike+ FuelBand SE BLE Protocol Reversed by mrsteveman1 on Friday January 30, 2015 @12:15AM (#8970563)
Even if you are allowed to reverse engineer software in certain cases, directly taking what you learned from the effort and using it to write other code by yourself is another matter. It's the sort of situation we have "clean room" reverse engineering[1] procedures for.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

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