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Legal disassembly
Mark Rasch, 2005-08-22

When security researcher and ISS employee Michael Lynn went to give a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, little did he know he would ignite a legal firestorm questioning whether even the act of looking for security vulnerabilities violates the law.

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Legal disassembly 2005-11-22
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When you buy a car, you're not prevented from opening the hood and taking out the engine. You're not even prevented from taking apart the engine.

Similarly, you're not prevented from analyzing each letter when you buy a book. Just as they're standardized components of words, so too are opcodes ...

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