Reverse‑Engineering as Digital Sovereignty

Legalizing reverse engineering (repealing anti‑circumvention rules) lets domestic actors audit, patch or replace cloud‑tethered or imported device code, enabling local supply‑chain resilience, competitive forks, and independent security audits. It reframes copyright carve‑outs not as narrow IP exceptions but as national infrastructure policy that affects AI training, hardware interoperability and foreign dependence. — Making reverse engineering legally protected would be a high‑leverage policy that realigns tech competition, national security, and platform accountability—opening coalition pathways across investors, regulators and security hawks.