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.

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.

  • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
    54·
    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.

    • Phanatik@kbin.social
      23·
      1 year ago

      Don’t know the first thing about these E-Meters but it’s really funny to me that they think tampering with the device could harm the Church’s reputation and goodwill. I wonder why that would be the case. If Apple doesn’t get a way out, neither does Scientology.

        • _haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social
          12·
          1 year ago

          They’re only considered a religion legally because they illegally infiltrated the IRS and intimidated them into giving them that status. Super messed up, read up on Operation Snow White if you aren’t already familiar.

        • gaael@lemmy.world
          121·
          1 year ago

          Apple is still not a religion ? They do have enough zealots to qualify :D

          • Jumper775@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 year ago

            Not necessarily. Religions special privileges are there to separate them from the government, it is to limit interaction between the two bodies. This is ultimately a good thing as it prevents the country/s from becoming a church state and maintain religious freedom. The issue is when a cult or other body strong arms its way to these privileges and then uses its lack of restrictions to exert their will on the country who can’t really do much back.

      • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        Here’s a video that goes into detail what is inside Mark-Super-7 E-Meter. https://piped.video/watch?v=N2O0oen6E90

        The successor requires an online activation to be used. Unlike my UT81-B multimeter with integrated scope.

        Btw i feel like we should make a mod for the E-Meter to allow users to plug in different probes to use them as proper resistance meters. You know, for the electrically inclined ex-scientologist.