Huh. It never ceases to amaze me when another demonstration is presented to me that “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose“ in this industry. I suppose it is

Huh. It never ceases to amaze me when another demonstration is presented to me that “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose“ in this industry. I suppose it is only to be expected that some of the old anti-piracy techniques found in 8-bit floppy- and cassette-distributed software might eventually find new philosophically-similar implementations in malware in the future. Some of that self-modifying and anti-defeat code back then were truly works of art, and squeezed into mind-bogglingly small memory and cpu foot prints, and the malware authors will have a field day re-implementing their future cousins in spirit, and some of the greybeards amongst the white hats will get to relive their 8-bit glory days hunting and defeating them. The article gave a description of a really super primitive technique compared to the last generation of those anti-piracy techniques, but I still see a family resemblance.