{"id":441,"date":"2007-06-30T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/the-almighty-eula\/"},"modified":"2007-06-30T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:47:08","slug":"the-almighty-eula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/the-almighty-eula\/","title":{"rendered":"The Almighty EULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/\">Coding Horror<\/a>, recently had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000892.html\">an intelligent discussion of end-user license agreements (EULAs)<\/a>. When I say &#8220;intelligent&#8221;, I of course mean that it doesn&#8217;t credit them as being the ultimate evil in the world that will enslave us all.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/king-molan\/361894490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/eula-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"EULA Hotel\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s a real hotel in San Francisco! Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/king-molan\/361894490\/\">King Molan<\/a> for the picture.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I think EULAs are very important. Many EULAs contain clauses that forbid binary reverse engineering. Whenever I install a piece of closed, proprietary software, I skim the EULA specifically to locate the section that discusses RE and the forbidding thereof. My reasoning is that if the clause is missing, then the software&#8217;s creators may just have the source available for download somewhere which would make any RE task superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, don&#8217;t RE if you don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite blogs, Coding Horror, recently had an intelligent discussion of end-user license agreements (EULAs). When I say &#8220;intelligent&#8221;, I of course mean that it doesn&#8217;t credit them as being the ultimate evil in the world that will enslave us all. It&#8217;s a real hotel in San Francisco! Thanks to King Molan for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalethical","category-reverse-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}