I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, as should be obvious by me being a random dude on the internet.
you can kind of sue about breaches of contract, but that’s civil law, not criminal law, so not illegal
unless I profit from that or use it to defame <redacted>, they might have a hard time demonstrating their damages from that breach
I didn’t sign any contract with <redacted> over their firmware anyway, and it will be hard to prove for them that I did, so kiss my ass
I’m not in the US, neither is <redacted> so the DMCA can kiss my ass as well
there are people who do this kind of work above-board, mostly in academic contexts, with their name attached to it, and as far as I can see they still walk around freely
you might want to double check your country’s laws. back when the DMCA was first passed the US was also in talks with a bunch of other nations and sneakily made it a condition of doing any trade with the US that they had to adopt basically a copy paste of the DMCA. if you’re in Canada for example it’s called the Copyright Modernization Act. If you’re in the EU it’s called CISD 2001.
That is explicitly prohibited by virtually all proprietary software license agreements.
Which makes it a breach of contract, but not illegal.
I have news for you about breaches of contract. They can be sued over.
Also DMCA 1201 is a thing which often makes reverse engineering a felony.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, as should be obvious by me being a random dude on the internet.
you might want to double check your country’s laws. back when the DMCA was first passed the US was also in talks with a bunch of other nations and sneakily made it a condition of doing any trade with the US that they had to adopt basically a copy paste of the DMCA. if you’re in Canada for example it’s called the Copyright Modernization Act. If you’re in the EU it’s called CISD 2001.