Software Piracy Exposed

Debuggers allow crackers to view each line of ASM that the CPU is

currently executing (a CPU runs billions of lines of machine code every

day). Using a memory debugger allows a cracker to watch each instruc-

tion execute in real time, while at the same time study the effect they

have on the environment. Six hours with a debugger can give a cracker a

complete low-level blueprint of how an application is behaving.

If a cracker spends enough time studying an application licensing

system, they will eventually replicate the entire process and create their

own license code generator. Key generators (keygen) are handmade

license generators commonly distributed ...