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When I made my own Palm OS software, I put a funny hidden message in the binary for crackers to find. They noted it, amused, in the crack DB and I like to think
by wahnfrieden 4y ago
When I made my own Palm OS software, I put a funny hidden message in the binary for crackers to find. They noted it, amused, in the crack DB and I like to think it endeared some to support an indie dev directly. I didn’t bother trying to make it hard to crack (waste of my time and another’s time) and left some note about how to do it in the message. I was 15 or 16 and enjoyed the indirect interaction with that community.
After I shut down and stopped distribution, some other Chinese crackers kept the app alive and going via both cracking AND forcing in Chinese translations for the whole app. I loved to see that forum thread continue for years after I had moved on.