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I was reading about cracking and how to prevent it. The article said that any software can be cracked and there is no 100% way to protect your software. Is this true? How can any software ever be sold if all software can be cracked?
It didn't go into detail but how can software be cracked anyway?
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Posted 28 September 2006 - 07:28 AM
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Decompiling to assembly is one way. .NET you can just decompile to original code.
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Posted 28 September 2006 - 08:13 AM
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All programs are in machine code/OS code. If you understand that, and most people don't, you can change it with a hex-editor to do something else. Back in the early 90's it was common to look up how to "crack" a program, and find directions to open the .exe with a hexeditor and change a 2-5 hex codes.
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Posted 28 September 2006 - 09:16 AM
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WingedPanther even today! with a hex editor a program can be cracked with just changing 2 hex numbers!
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Posted 30 September 2006 - 05:09 AM
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All you said is right but cracking is not easy. There is ways to make it hard for anyone want crack a program.
There is programs that decompile programs. But they are not complete even.
There is programs that decompile programs. But they are not complete even.
technology is nothing when is prisoner
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Posted 01 October 2006 - 03:57 AM
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prodo said:
All you said is right but cracking is not easy. There is ways to make it hard for anyone want crack a program.
There is programs that decompile programs. But they are not complete even.
There is programs that decompile programs. But they are not complete even.
Make it hard to crack yes but make it impossible to crack no! an yeah Cracking IS easy! depends!
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Posted 01 October 2006 - 11:54 AM
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The only disassembler I ran into disassembled down to assembler. Whether that's easy to crack depends on your skill set.
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Posted 02 October 2006 - 08:53 AM
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Yah then from the assembly code you could do what you want :)
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Posted 02 October 2006 - 02:14 PM
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There is the decompiler for .net that makes it easy to crack.
If you know assembly you can crack anything.
If you know assembly you can crack anything.
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Posted 06 October 2006 - 09:51 AM
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Void said:
There is the decompiler for .net that makes it easy to crack.
If you know assembly you can crack anything.
If you know assembly you can crack anything.
Well you dont need to know alot of assembley! just a little will let you make basic cracking!
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Posted 06 October 2006 - 12:12 PM
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So, you've done some cracking huh?
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Posted 06 October 2006 - 02:05 PM
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Hmm yeah! you know those CrackMe apps! yeah I crack some of them!
Why? thats to increase my knowledge :)
You think that I will crack your programs? lol then you are in the wrong way!
Why? thats to increase my knowledge :)
You think that I will crack your programs? lol then you are in the wrong way!
