No hacking is circumventing the security…if you send out the password it is really bad secops. Stop selling negligence of a party as hacking.

They have to…otherwise some other shmock can come and patent it…
But what you do with the patent is your choice, you can still allow the use of the technology.

Important to know: the local copy is read only…so you can’t modify existing or create new entries if you aren’t connected to the server

What…why…how?

These sound a lot like “trust me bro, he’s bad” arguments