Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 07:21:30 10/30/02
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On October 30, 2002 at 07:03:21, Omid David wrote: >I really don't understand this "CD verification" process used by many software >companies. If the user has an illegal copy (downloaded/burned copy/etc), it's >natural to assume he also has a crack for it! Exactly. This reminds me of a class I took where the teacher required you to not only give the answer to a homework question, but also to provide the page where you found the answer in the book. This was annoying, because this class was 'introduction to computers', so I knew 95% of the answers without having to look in the book at all. I asked her why she had this requirement, and my professor said that it was to prevent cheating, because this way, you couldn't just copy someone else's homework since you had to provide page numbers. So I gave her a deer in the headlights look, and said, "If I'm copying someone else's homework, wouldn't I just copy their page numbers too?" and she didn't quite know how to answer that. Cracking most software is a matter of changing a single instruction in the binary. Anyone could do that. Now imagine what a talented, experienced cracker would be able to do. Unfortunately the "experts" employed by the software company are usually newbies in the security field compared to the amateur high school kid who ends up cracking their software protection in their bedroom one evening while watching TV. Russell
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