I feel that I need to add Phrozen Crews' TKC tutorials ( http://www.woodmann.com/RCE-CD-SITES/Quantico/lessonstutors.htm http://www.woodmann.com/RCE-CD-SITES/Qu

I feel that I need to add Phrozen Crews' TKC tutorials ( http://www.woodmann.com/RCE-CD-SITES/Quantico/lessonstutors.htm http://www.woodmann.com/RCE-CD-SITES/Quantico/lessonstutors.... ). Those are the ones that I used to learn cracking. Fun times. I remember the two best cracks I read about: One was to add functionality to binary software (the tut was to add something to Notepad). This was used to 'crack' w32dasm and add some other stuff (there were really cool w32dasm versions circulating). The other was (and it is funny that is still quite relevant e.g. SimCity) to emulate a validation server (I think it was Flex validation) in localhost to register software that called home. My personal best was to do keygens. For that, you really needed to understand the asm program routine which validated the username/pass.