[erosenbe0]

I agree with you that reverse engineering does not extend to anything one pleases on the internet.

I also don't see game-modders or game cheaters regularly going to prison even though gaming is an enormous industry.

So clearly there is some tolerance as connectivity being ubiquitous blurs the line a bit though. An app I reverse engineer on my device, may as a side-effect make some communications with a third party asset, though primarily it is all my stuff. The same applies to a cars and other items, surely.

That being said financial account creation is definitely NOT the place to take risks. Same with government systems. Pretty quick many other laws and regulations ij the book come into play. They can be very broad too.

[tptacek]

The bright line here is between code running on machines you own, and code running on machines you don't own. It's not complicated.