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[Kallisti]

^Not necessarily.

Well, it depends. If the Hardware ID system would work by just checking if the hardware components match, then yes, it's pwned.

[skiiiz]

I mean merging registry values.
E.G: Merging "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptograph y", "MachineGuid" with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion", "BuildGuid"
Each computer has a unique HWID.

So how was I pwned again?

[freedompeace]

Language: Visual Basic or C#
Difficulty: Moderate
Title: Web browser
Description: A web browser that uses either WebKit or the Mozilla Firefox rendering engine
Other details/features: Fully featured peese :P

Exact same hardware = owned.

You do know hardware have unique IDs, right?

[Kallisti]

Language: Visual Basic or C#
Difficulty: Moderate
Title: Web browser
Description: A web browser that uses either WebKit or the Mozilla Firefox rendering engine
Other details/features: Fully featured peese :P



You do know hardware have unique IDs, right?

What if they share hardware

[Alen]

What if they share hardware

User auth

[Hassan]

Language: VB.NET
Difficulty: 9/10
Title: .NET Obfuscator
Description: Make a program that packs .NET objects to prevent reverse engineering & include better deployment.
Other details/features: Have a unique hardware ID system in it to prevent sharing of program.

There you go.
That ought to take you a while...

LOL, this is easy and you put the difficulty to 9/10 ...

[Hell_Demon]

Language: Dutch
Difficulty: 10
Title: Learning
Description: Learn dutch
Other details/features: Google translate is forbidden.

[Kallisti]

Language: Dutch
Difficulty: 10
Title: Learning
Description: Learn dutch
Other details/features: Google translate is forbidden.

Language: Korean
Difficulty: 11/10
Title: Learn
Description: Become fluent in Korean
Other details/features: Good luck. No translators.

The national language people say that Korean is a Level IV language. Taking 63 weeks of formal tutoring to be street proficcient.

[Hassan]

How the fuck are the last two projects related to programming ?

[Hell_Demon]

How the fuck are the last two projects related to programming ?

he is ought to write a bot that teaches him dutch.

[why06]

Language: Dutch
Difficulty: 10
Title: Learning
Description: Learn dutch
Other details/features: Google translate is forbidden.

Hmmmzz.... I knows this.... how does dutch go again.... starts with an "S" ...

[.::SCHiM::.]

I mean merging registry values.
E.G: Merging "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptograph y", "MachineGuid" with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion", "BuildGuid"
Each computer has a unique HWID.

So how was I pwned again?

You're forgetting the most basic rule of reversing...
All code must run, if I shove that ultra hard packed thingy of yours into a debugger I can step the measures of protection and bypass them, sorry bud, but protecting your software like that is just a waste of time...

Hmmmzz.... I knows this.... how does dutch go again.... starts with an "S" ...

Stupid?
Slim?
uhh... Super cool?

[Hassan]

You're forgetting the most basic rule of reversing...
All code must run, if I shove that ultra hard packed thingy of yours into a debugger I can step the measures of protection and bypass them, sorry bud, but protecting your software like that is just a waste of time...

Then kindly tell us how we should protect our apps !!

[Kallisti]

Then kindly tell us how we should protect our apps !!

아니 감사합이다.

[.::SCHiM::.]

Then kindly tell us how we should protect our apps !!

The only thing I can thing off that would be effective, is to buy yourself time.
eg: making the cracking process as repetitive and boring as possible, and using techniques that are hard to bypass for beginners & are hard to automate

But the thing is time & effort are all on the crackers side, it can take a professional years to develop a good protection program, but it can be cracked in a matter of days even by a skid using the the proper tools. And when it's first cracked and analyzed and all your flashy tricks are discovered, the process can be sped up to a matte of hours. To bad for all those years thinkering and working on a un-crackable solution

So to make a long story shot: You cannot possibly 100% protect your ap, you can only force the crackers to invest more time and effort, hopefully scaring the less skilled onces away.