This article reminded me of Apple II software deprotection articles published in Computist magazine (available at http://archive.org/details/computist http://ar

This article reminded me of Apple II software deprotection articles published in Computist magazine (available at http://archive.org/details/computist http://archive.org/details/computist ). The way the story is told, with victories that turn out to hide yet another layer of protection, the need to delve into raw hexadecimal, and finally the discovery of a poorly-hidden key, is very much how 8-bit software cracking used to be done in the eighties. Plus ça change...