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The first software I cracked was in 2004 (some video converter software), the motivation was simply that I can’t afford it, but the “feeling” you get after is l
by tamimio 3y ago
The first software I cracked was in 2004 (some video converter software), the motivation was simply that I can’t afford it, but the “feeling” you get after is like a drug, then it’s more of a challenge knowing that it’s doable no matter what, just like lock picking, then that spark just dies and you stop cracking them.
- RetroTechie 3y agoCracked plenty software back in the day but mostly for personal use. For the challenge, and because I disliked software being tied to a specific storage medium. It was a sport to minimize changes. Like pad out a single assembly instruction with NOPs, change a conditional jump into unconditional one, etc.
- 3abiton 3y agoIn the android space, most app cracking is rather easy. Surprisingly.
- grishka 3y agoBecause Dalvik/ART (and regular JVM for that matter) bytecode is much less lossy than machine code. Most of the type information stays intact even after obfuscation, so you still get sensible output from a decompiler. This is in contrast with C/C++ where all struct and class usage gets converted into direct memory accesses.