On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > "It is a tool for reengineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android > apps." > > "It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be > used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom > platforms and other GOOD purposes." > > Baloney. Reengineering itself is an illegal use.
Actually, reverse engineering itself is not illegal in the United States and in many other countries. > There is no GOOD > purpose it should be used for. It is a piracy tool pure and simple. Interoperating with existing code, learning coding techniques (and using non-patented ones), security auditing, etc. (Don't dismiss security auditing - google up "android malicious app droid09" for an example...) Now, it may well be that the authors really did intend the tool to be for piracy and not any of the legitimate uses it may be put to. But you can't conclude that simply from the fact that they produced the tool itself. Of course, application developers are free to obfuscate or otherwise make reverse engineering as difficult as they like, too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
