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I think the effect on pirated debuggers might have been bigger. When I was young and dabbled in this space one fun part of the experience was finding a cracked
by cess11 2y ago
I think the effect on pirated debuggers might have been bigger. When I was young and dabbled in this space one fun part of the experience was finding a cracked version of Olly that didn't have custom trojans in it. I'm sure this tradition continued after I sort of dropped out, at least until Ghidra and WinDbg and low-threshold gdb-facades made it less relevant.
- self_awareness 2y agoCracked versions of OllyDbg? Wasn't OllyDbg always free?
- cess11 2y agoNah, it was shareware at first.
- self_awareness 2y agoV1 is still shareware, but wasn't it always free to use? I mean, not that it matters in the long run, now I guess Olly was superseded by x64dbg anyway, but as a person who migrated from SoftICE to Olly, I've never had to find a cracked version for it. But the again, I was one of those "last men standing" when it came to migration, so I could migrate relatively late compared to others.