Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair (www.404media.co)

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A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.

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[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't want public to find out that the E-Meter is IIRC just a fancy resistance meter, do we?

Or how to break the DRM the company introduced just to make sure that the E-Meter cannot be used by everyone. Or that my multimeter is much cooler and has a built-in scope as opposed to their thing.

[-] VitoScaletta@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like it's time for someone to make a FOSS E-meter

[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We'll call it libreBullshit

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