I suspect they know that, but it reads as if they were just lazily tacking that claim on for effect. This isn't a petition to a court, this is just a demand letter. Listing out a bunch of scary damages is how demand letters often work. They don't have to go into details as to the basis of their legal claims.

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kevin_thibedeau 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This demand letter may become evidence in a future case and judges don't look kindly upon lies and deception.

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kube-system 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but this claim is not that... It sounds like they're making an argument about trade secrets, without explicitly detailing the legal justification for it.

You definitely don't need to cite the legal justification for every demand you make in a demand letter.

You don't even need to have a valid justification to make a demand in a demand letter... it is common and normal to make arbitrary demands... they are negotiations.

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kevin_thibedeau 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Trade secrets aren't protected by law. That's why they aren't disclosed. If someone lawfully reverse engineers your trade secret, its secrecy disappears without legal recourse. Decompiling a binary for RE interop purposes is legal in the US.

	▲	kube-system 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is a common misconception, but trade secrets are absolutely protected by law, in most countries around the world. https://www.wipo.int/en/web/trade-secrets#systems Now yes, they're fair game for reverse engineering, but that doesn't mean someone can't be mad about it and tell you not to do it.