
Inside the publicly accessible anonymous FTP server, hidden under a
maze of 14 directories, were two zip files:
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Release-16.zip, 280meg in size)
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Release16src.zip, 350meg in size.
^Evil asked me, “Do you see it? That’s v16 of ****. We don’t even
have to worry about the copy protection, because we have the source
code too!”
Having the source code made defeating the copy protection trivial
because their crackers could now use the source code to recompile the
application with the “copy” protection commented out.
By using an FTP client alone, we effectively stole and cracked one of
the most expensive CAD software applications on the market. I was
beginning ...