Quote: Originally posted by OpenMinded on March 03, 2004
We are always looking crackers,coders,suppliers. If you
want to join group, contact us. But it is considered that
you have asm knowledge and some experience on reversing.
By "reversing" they mean Reverse Engineering, or deconstructing software to figure out how it works or in this case how to bypass registration and licensing keys.
I can't say that reverse engineering is all bad, that's how I learned to code HTML and why with all the fancy editors out there I still prefer notepad.exe to create pages. When I was curious to learn to make a web page, I just went to sites that had elements that I liked and looked at the source code with the browser's built-in "view|source" menu item. I also learned the basics from the Web Developer's virtual library at http://www.wdvl.com .... it's a free resource for the DIY HTML coding students. Now, had I used this tactic to take information and turn around and copyright and sell it, that's a problem. They tell me what I did was called a good hack, hackers are programmers, it's only in the last decade the bad connotation got attached. The troublemakers are Crackers, they will use tools like SoftICE to get into the executable code and bypass the licensing/registration.
How do I know about SoftICE? I used it legitimately when I used to fly an online combat flight sim and you could "hack" the program to get a fancy colored signature ;-) totally legit, the company (NovaLOGIC) used to have instructions on how to do it on their home page... some folks took gamer tags seriously...
Do let us know if it works at all... If you already got it ,just be careful because that page tried to force you to install something before continuing, which I don't ever do (with the exception of Macromedia updates and Microsoft updates)