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Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by Zambyte »

internetter wrote: post #80
Zambyte wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mechanic doesn't speculatively contact me about work I should do on my car. If I want new software that I can't write myself, I should reach out to developers, not the other way around.

Does this extend to books? movies? games?

I would extend it to the words in a book, but not the book itself. That is a physical object and therefore has real scarcity. Similarly for movies and games.

Though I'm actually not against paying for access to stream media. I am however against telling people what they can do with the media once they stream it (ie saving it to their own drive for future playback).

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by lossolo »

"downloaded torrent is a split rar. lol

in 2024"

That doesn't have anything to do with being old fashioned. It's about how racing works in scene FTPs. When you release something race begins starting from so called affil "sites" (group release to all their affil sites at the same time) from there it propagates to whole scene by couriers. Because of how FTP works you need to split the file into multiple files so it can be uploaded by multiple people from multiple sources making distribution fast. And rar is used for that, there are scene rules for it and it's not using compression option.

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by skeaker »

redbell wrote: post #76

Pretty interesting! I believe being successful in reverse engineering, cracking, bypassing security layers (e.g., unlocking cars without keys), and other hacks comes down to understanding the basics of how these systems are designed to work in the first place. Add to this, the possession of the right toolbox to do the job. Back in 2010, I took on the challenge of cracking paid/licensed POS software. I am, in no way,…

Similar story from me, I was digging around in the code of this game that I had been playing since I wanted to make mods for it. At one point I found the internal IDs for different outfits you can put on your characters which was relevant to what I was making, so I grepped for those IDs since they were one of the few strings that weren't jumbled by code obfuscation. Stumbled upon the code that checks if you own the DLC outfits and found out you could basically just swap the check for a return(true). You could even use them online... Hardly any protection at all but it hadn't been cracked simply because nobody else looked that closely.

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by amatecha »

486sx33 wrote: post #56
amatecha wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"as designed", due to the gradual decrease in Twitter's functionality due to unknown reasons (probably trying to manipulate people into signing up to boost user count and ad revenue)

Because AI models kept trying to train on twitter for free.

AI models for... spam bots? There are way better sources for human writing. Is this a reasoning Melon Husk gave for closing off the so-called "town square"? Pretty poor reason, if so.

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by pimlottc »

lossolo wrote: post #82

"downloaded torrent is a split rar. lol in 2024" That doesn't have anything to do with being old fashioned. It's about how racing works in scene FTPs. When you release something race begins starting from so called affil "sites" (group release to all their affil sites at the same time) from there it propagates to whole scene by couriers. Because of how FTP works you need to split the file into multiple files so it can…

From the 2021 scene release rules for games (ISO rips) [0]:

> 1.7 The ISO file has to be packed into a RAR archive using the RAR4 or the RAR5 format and the old style volume naming scheme. e.g. grp-gamename.rar, grp-gamename.r00, grp-gamename.r01, ...

0: https://scenerules.org/html/2021_GAMEiSO.html

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by NoahKAndrews »

redbell wrote: post #76

Pretty interesting! I believe being successful in reverse engineering, cracking, bypassing security layers (e.g., unlocking cars without keys), and other hacks comes down to understanding the basics of how these systems are designed to work in the first place. Add to this, the possession of the right toolbox to do the job. Back in 2010, I took on the challenge of cracking paid/licensed POS software. I am, in no way,…

Files are allowed to not have extensions. Wouldn't just * been enough?

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

silisili wrote: post #71
pests wrote: post #64

All the swearing turned me off. I don't mind cussing and use them myself, but does every tweet need to drop the f bomb?

Same, I'm far from a prude, but time and place. And reading about reverse engineering is neither. It reminds me of a really smart kid who doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, so writes nonchalantly and injects vulgarities into an otherwise brilliant project. Good Will Hunting vibes. It's not really offensive, it's just distracting.

you just described 99% of anime avatar twitter

Re: Reverse engineering a software crack

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

lossolo wrote: post #82

"downloaded torrent is a split rar. lol in 2024" That doesn't have anything to do with being old fashioned. It's about how racing works in scene FTPs. When you release something race begins starting from so called affil "sites" (group release to all their affil sites at the same time) from there it propagates to whole scene by couriers. Because of how FTP works you need to split the file into multiple files so it can…

You know too much not to be a scene member
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