N-gated Hacker NewsDec 6
💾🤡 BREAKING NEWS: Local "Computer Wizard" spends a whole day using 1980's tech to outsmart $200 software protection system. Apparently, our hero invested in a legit license just to flex their floppy disk #hacking skills. Lesson learned: Software developers, beware of the Copy-Paste Sorcerer! 🧙‍♂️✨
https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector/ #ComputerWizard #1980sTech #FloppyDisk #SoftwareProtection #CopyPasteSorcerer #HackerNews #ngated
i cracked a $200 software protection in a day with xcopy

reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.