On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Ryan Minnig wrote:
> You will never be able to stop people from cracking your software. Heck,
> there have even been times when I had to resort to doing my own cracking
> to use a 'time limited' or some sort of 'shareware internet registration'
> to be able to use the full version. The long and short of it is as long
> as there is software people want to use and it's more cost effective to
> spend hours downloading (or, heaven forbid, cracking yourself) people
> will find a way to crack it. If you don't want it cracked (very fast
> that is) you will have to devote considerable resources to finding a way
> to make it uncrackable as long as possible (i.e. long enough for you to
> make a profit off of it). Remember there are high school and college
> students that have many free hours to spend doing this sort of thing, and
> also working people, but just with not as much free time.
>
> In my opinion,
> Q. Is downloading full versions of cracked software wrong?
> A. Probably.
agreed.. how many of you have cracked desktop software?
> Q. Is downloading full (trial) versions of software from the internet or
> CD provided by the author/company then cracking it yourself wrong?
> A. No. If a person/company is too lazy or stupid to think through their
> copy protection ahead of time they are just looking for trouble. And
> yes, it would be foolish to use the same scheme on multiple peices of
> software to better code reuse (like M$ Office, OS, Bookshelf, Developer
> studio.......)
thats what i have always thought too.
a) if they are smart enough to crack it.. good on em.
b) them distributing it is wrong.
> For all you software engineers out there like me. At least perform a
> checksum on your code before you allow the OS (Palm or otherwise) to
> execute it to stop the inexperienced hacker from NOPing or changing BEQs
> to BNEs. (and yes, I know it is a little difficult to do this when not
> in an embedded system, using someone elses OS, but if you don't, be
> prepared for many crackers of all ages to use you software in a matter of
> minutes, hours or days)
but they can jump over that too. :P
az.
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