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I love that they wrote a tool to automate cracking. I'd be curious to know more about it, like specifically what kinds of protection it could break. IIRC a lot
by NelsonMinar 8y ago
I love that they wrote a tool to automate cracking. I'd be curious to know more about it, like specifically what kinds of protection it could break. IIRC a lot of copy protection on the Apple ][ was pretty straightforward, they'd just change the marker bytes for where sectors began to something nonstandard. I imagine that's pretty easy to automatically reverse. But a disc with something weird like spiral tracking or software with a deeply obfuscated "look up a word in the manual" system must be harder to crack.
- sp332 8y agoIt's here https://github.com/a2-4am/passport https://github.com/a2-4am/passport Also he has a "best of" list if you don't want to dig through all of the logs he keeps to find the interesting stuff. https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/993129396520341504 https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/993129396520341504
- kchr 8y ago> software with a deeply obfuscated "look up a word in the manual" system must be harder to crack. Reminds me of the paper codex used by Lucasarts and their Monkey Island series :-) Pragmatic solution, and very funny, although not that hard to copy and distribute along with the pirated game.