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As I was reading this, I realized that the ESP32 HomeKit debugging session I had running was taking a while, and this happened: Me: what are you doing? Agent:
by rcarmo 2mo ago
As I was reading this, I realized that the ESP32 HomeKit debugging session I had running was taking a while, and this happened:
Me: what are you doing?
Agent: I’m resolving Apple’s private video-resolution lookup table to determine whether iOS 26 supports 320×240 for HomeKit live streaming.
The decompiled source hides the numeric constants, so I:
- Downloaded/extracted the iOS 26.1 arm64e dyld cache to /workspace/tmp/ios26-dyld/.
- Built and installed the read-only apfs-fuse utility needed to mount Apple’s APFS image.
- Planned to extract HomeKitDaemon and decode its resolution table.
Me: Oh, OK. Carry on then
These are weird times.
- ctxc 2mo agoIt's insane, right? Reverse engineering is so much fun, I find myself doing it on random apps so often now
- bpavuk 2mo agoit's especially fun when you do it yourself, I advise toying around with https://crackmes.one https://crackmes.one. with time and practice, everything becomes open-source because you can read assembly XD
- fragmede 2mo agoNot legally, which is the issue. I can "open source" Windows 11 and rip out some of the shittiness, but Microsoft is gonna take issue. If it were MIT licensed that would be a different story, but there isn't enough money for lawyers in the world where it's not.
- bpavuk 2mo agoI know enough people for whom this risk is the entire appeal
- kevin_thibedeau 2mo agoReverse engineering is legal in the US. You just can't disseminate the results if it runs afoul of copyright law or patents.
- bpavuk 2mo agowho said that you still technically cannot disseminate the results? bulletproof hosting and private communications still exist. if law is being used to harm the consumer, the consumer in question has full moral right to speak out against it, and taking ownership of your hardware (like OP tells they did) is one of the best ways
- davidron 1mo agoI believe you are responding to somebody commenting on the legal restrictions rather than the technical ones. It appears that you may have hallucinated the word "technical" in your response.
- fc417fc802 2mo agoSo what? Just be mindful of what you post on the clearnet. What you're doing is like worrying about the illegality of making sparkler bombs in your backyard IMO.
- jaggederest 2mo agoWe're entering an age where doing binary modification on live binaries is not a huge deal. Everything is now open "source"?
- debugnik 2mo agoI would move the quotes to "open" since the issue of licensing is still left. Although LLM providers have shown that they don't care about copyright so it should go both ways.
- jaggederest 2mo agoQuotes for all of it, it's a closed binary that is transparently user modifiable these days I guess, so "open" "source".
- simpaticoder 2mo agoWhat is it called when there's a process that's available to individuals but is long and onerous and cannot be shared among them? Saying the binaries are open source now means that the work of reverse engineering will be repeated exactly in proportion to the number of times it's modified. I would argue on a large scale this is still effectively closed source.
- jaggederest 2mo agoAs soon as you can share binary patches (highly illegal of course) we're off to the races.
- fc417fc802 2mo agoMore like mildly illegal. Seems on par with torrents to me.
- shepherdjerred 2mo agoBinary patches aren’t illegal right? How would they be?
- qingcharles 2mo ago0x Alpha is unlimited free tokens this weekend so I had it take apart the original 8088 PC Elite and reverse it back to original MASM assembler and come up with plausible names for all the functions and data structures and check that it compiles back to byte-perfect original. Wild!