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Re: time-based beta termination system
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Re: time-based beta termination system


  • Subject: Re: time-based beta termination system
  • From: Alex Curylo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:55:15 -0700

on 7/24/03 3:01 AM, email@hidden at
email@hidden wrote:

> A seasoned
> cracker can pretty much circumvent any copy-protection you dream up
> by liberally adding a few no-ops to the code instead of your
> registration checks.

While 'tis true that anything that executes in memory is fundamentally
crackable, downloading necessary code fragments on the fly from your secure
server over the Internet is a method that requires a hell of a lot more work
to crack than "a few no-ops". More importantly, anyone capable of doing it
almost certainly has more remunerative and/or interesting things to spend
their time on.

--
Alex Curylo -- email@hidden -- http://www.alexcurylo.com/

"You have more of a Picasso feel to you anyway, angular and harsh...
and I'm not a fan of most of his work." -- Tara Sanders
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