Switching Sierra to QMI from DirectIP

[Markus Gothe]

Ah, good point.
This is true in most countries.
In Sweden IOP by any means necessary is considered legal AFAIK.

This doesn’t necessary cover spreading the work done for IOP to third party. :-/

//M

On 31 Mar 2014, at 23:51 , Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 15:50 +0100, Markus Gothe wrote:
>> Me and a friend has reversed the generic algorithm for switching a Sierra into QMI-mode. Not the old A710 code thats Bern out their forever.
>> 
>> I found this binary on a FTP and reversed the Challenge-response algo, totally legal in accordance with Swedish law.
>> 
>> I am considering making this open source. What do you think?
> 
> To ensure total legal clarity, you usually need to do "black box"
> reverse engineering like the b43 WiFi driver project did that reverse
> engineered the early Broadcom devices.  One person/team does all the
> reverse engineering and writes a set of specifications and posts them in
> public location.  Then a different person/team, who was not involved
> with the reverse engineering, writes a the program that actually does
> the operations described in the specification.  This ensures that any
> algorithms or other knowledge that was observed during the reverse
> engineering do not cross-polinate to the implementation.
> 
> Dan
> 
> _______________________________________________
> libqmi-devel mailing list
> libqmi-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libqmi-devel



//Markus - The panama-hat hacker

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libqmi-devel/attachments/20140401/5f312c3d/attachment.sig>