It's easy enough to remove the fees from all these illegal firmware.
The people who release them are really not that smart.
Of course I'm certainly not gonna support a bunch of criminals and help people use their firmware ...
That might be right, but I would never trust such a firmware.
Most of them make use of the api (thank you for the excelent API-Readme in cgminer)
But hiveon secured it extra, so blocking of their comand and control IP, stops the mining in total.
My solution for that is, do not use it.
If someone want a change, compile your own version, all Information are out there in the wild, you only need the will to do it (don't be lazy).