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Longer than a year. RLD released a proper after 424 days. Inquisitive minds wanting more information should be directed to StarForce.RE.Tools.ReadNFO-RELOADED

Longer than a year. RLD released a proper after 424 days. Inquisitive minds wanting more information should be directed to StarForce.RE.Tools.ReadNFO-RELOADED - http://www.glop.org/files/rld-sfrt.rar http://www.glop.org/files/rld-sfrt.rar (sorry for the hotlink!) - for a detailed technical analysis published concerning the StarForce 3 protection. A fine piece of work, if I may say, though I shall not identify the authors. StarForce 3 was really quite intrusive, including secretly-installed ring0-access device-drivers. Flaky and damaging to the security of your system and very widely complained about. I would not say such a monstrosity is an achievement UbiSoft should be proud of: indeed, they actually apologised, although I would not say they were genuinely sorry in any sense. I would like to thank the developers working on the actual game, of course. I feel sorry for them that the publisher had such strong opinions about that.

jsheard 12y ago
I'm still holding out hope for an analysis of the Denuvo DRM scheme, which has only been defeated with unwieldy and slow emulators after five months. As far as I know it doesn't use any invasive kernel modules like StarForce did. Probably won't happen though...
- nekitamo 12y ago
  Denuvo seems to be Securom 7 ported to 64 bit. I imagine it's taking a while to crack because the reversing tools for 64 bit Windows are still quite inferior to their 32 bit counterparts, and most reversers are stuck in '32 bit mindset'.
  - AlyssaRowan 12y ago
    I wouldn't say that's true, but I am unable to comment further.
    - voltagex_ 12y ago
      If you know any of the RELOADED (or FAIRLIGHT?) guys/girls - say thanks for me! Their work has introduced me to the demoscene, infosec and reverse engineering.
voltagex_ 12y ago
That's very rare to see tools released by a group like RELOADED. I wonder what else is out there?
- nekitamo 12y ago
  They released a tool to bypass Safedisc/Safecast, after Macrovision discontinued those protections: http://scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1707 http://scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1707

jsheard 12y ago

I'm still holding out hope for an analysis of the Denuvo DRM scheme, which has only been defeated with unwieldy and slow emulators after five months. As far as I know it doesn't use any invasive kernel modules like StarForce did. Probably won't happen though...

nekitamo 12y ago
Denuvo seems to be Securom 7 ported to 64 bit. I imagine it's taking a while to crack because the reversing tools for 64 bit Windows are still quite inferior to their 32 bit counterparts, and most reversers are stuck in '32 bit mindset'.
- AlyssaRowan 12y ago
  I wouldn't say that's true, but I am unable to comment further.
  - voltagex_ 12y ago
    If you know any of the RELOADED (or FAIRLIGHT?) guys/girls - say thanks for me! Their work has introduced me to the demoscene, infosec and reverse engineering.

voltagex_ 12y ago

That's very rare to see tools released by a group like RELOADED. I wonder what else is out there?

nekitamo 12y ago
They released a tool to bypass Safedisc/Safecast, after Macrovision discontinued those protections: http://scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1707 http://scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1707