Precisely. Any corporate lawyer reading this thread is probably hoping none of the engineers in their company think this way. In my old company we were told to

Precisely. Any corporate lawyer reading this thread is probably hoping none of the engineers in their company think this way. In my old company we were told to perform competitor analysis only through publicly available information - blogs, marketing announcements, videos, ads, etc. No creating a free account to poke around. I often wondered what happened in the past to have this rule.