Posted by Isaiah on 12/04/13

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Hi,

I've subscribed to a paid service that I'm very happy with,
other than the fact that their UI is crap. Being me, I
decided that I could make a better UI then they could.

I was planning on reverse-engineering their application to
figure out how I could use their security mechanism to poll
data (using my own account information). But it never came
to that. Before I started, I used a packet sniffer to see
if I could gain any insight in how it communicated with the
server. It turned out that there was no security at all,
and in fact, you could poll data without an account at all.
The application verifies that the user has an account, but
beyond that... there's nothing.

My question is, will there be any legal repercussions if I
write a new UI and release the application, closed source,
with the same level of security (or lack of security)?

Legal Concern: using an inscure service, 12/04/13, by Isaiah.

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