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Unpacking a competitor app and poking around private APIs to reverse engineer implementation is a liability landmine. Ask your company’s lawyer. Finding and di
by aldebran 5y ago
Unpacking a competitor app and poking around private APIs to reverse engineer implementation is a liability landmine. Ask your company’s lawyer.
Finding and disclosing a security flaw isn’t even needed for this to be a problem. You’re immediately a liability to your company. You’re breaking TOS or whatever agreement the competitor app install or usage has. You’re opening up your employer to an espionage or IP theft lawsuit.
There are many easy ways to do compete analysis that don’t involve these liabilities.