In reply to:
"Hi to all,
Here come just some my ideas I got after reading your discussion about
cracking and how to stop it.
1. Nobody can stop cracking, all you can do is to make it more complicated.
2. To make cracking harder you should have large practice in it. You should
know methods and technique of your enemies. It's seems me that in this
discussion the more actively one speaks about it the less he knows it."
"hacking' and 'cracking' will always exist. As long as we (human race) use
symbols and systems to represent anything, there will always be people who
(conciously or just for the fun of it) WILL attempt to (and will succeed) to use
this system in a way no one had thought of. Reselling cracked warez is WRONG
however !!!! I've personally patched more than a 100 palm applications, however
they are for my own use, and (I know it sounds weird) it helps me in my
understanding of the Palm Computing Platform which I have to deal with on a
daily basis (my work yes...). There is a limit between hacking (exploring and
mastering a given system), cracking (bypassing certain features, or unlocking
so-called-uncrackable applications) AND reselling something YOU NEVER BOUGHT AND
WERE NEVER MEANT TO POSSESS WITHOUT BUYING IT. Let's be honest: A GOOD part of
the world programmers DO REALISE now THAT the public is aware of the fact that
you have BAD CODE and GOOD CODE being sold every day. Some charge $100 US for a
piece of code just because the market has not got the choice and will buy it
anyway. I'm against that. Code should be like electricity or water: a resource.
As long as some coders define their prices based on the market's ignorance:
their applications will be patched: like this *fingers snapping* !!!
We should all remember that users DO BUY software that works. Crackers (I ain't
one) have time on their hands. I also believe that part of the crackers are
programmers themselves who DO SELL COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE. The point is: do your
code, use a simple scheme (most users don't know what a disassembler is =}),
remember that crackers WILL CRACK anyway. Today it's software, tomorrow it might
be brain implants or space travel. Don't sweat over it... it won't change a
thing.
