Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?

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(Reposting my comment here from the other thread)

AFAIK, reverse engineering APIs isn’t illegal. [1]

There are some (VC backed) start ups that are open about doing it. Teller API is an example. [2]

[1] “Reverse engineering generally doesn't violate trade secret law because it is a fair and independent means of learning information, not a misappropriation. Once the information is discovered in a fair and honest way, it also can be reported without violating trade secret law.“ https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq [2] “We reverse engineer these apps to discover their secret API contracts and then implement clients for them.” https://teller.io/

Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and makes merging threads a pain.

Reverse engineering an API is generally not a huge deal, but actively abusing it might get you in hot water.

Oops, didn’t see main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623

Try emailing dang?