C++ is used mostly for video games today. They should instead advocate customer rights to have access to their software's source code and legally mod it. That used to be common, and say IBM software always came with source code. If you illegally disassemble software, that could get you in troubles for breaking license agreement, because these corporate shitheads don't want you to fix their software or modify it for say bath processing.
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Anonymous2019-02-12 14:46
>>6 in my country, it is explicitly legal to RE software for porting/interoperability.
also, advocacy makes sense only if your're are in a position to negotiate. better RE tools put you in that position.
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Anonymous2019-02-12 16:01
>>7 Buying software with source code will put you in that position. I.e. instead of locked iPhone buy Android device that is rooted from start.
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Anonymous2019-02-13 7:34
>>8 you've got it backwards. I can't buy software with source code because companies don't sell that. and even having source code does not guarantee rooting if software needs to be signed and I don't get the key. but if I have great RE tools that allow me to easily get semi-readable code, there will not be much incentive for the vendors to hide source code
