reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.
This feels like an old school error, just with modern protection code.
Like in the Win95 days where the installer would ask for a serial number to install… But you could load the installer in a hex editor, look for the PKZ magic bytes, and run unzip on it. :)
I unlocked a ton of “paid” games on Windows 95 from Compaq at ~5 years old just by typing 000000. It was even easier because it gave away the maxlength.
This feels like an old school error, just with modern protection code.
Like in the Win95 days where the installer would ask for a serial number to install… But you could load the installer in a hex editor, look for the PKZ magic bytes, and run unzip on it. :)
Remember the stickers on the side of PC towers with the serial number on it?
I unlocked a ton of “paid” games on Windows 95 from Compaq at ~5 years old just by typing
000000. It was even easier because it gave away the maxlength.