Since I've been told several times that my copyprotection is a piece o cake
I trust you but I'd love to see exactly step by step how you would hack my software.
So I challenge you.
Find attached my code, compile and run it. The mods won't allow me to attach EXEs so that's why give the source code.
But do not cheat ! Do not "study" the code because you have to simulate you were only testing on an EXE which you don't have a clue on how it was made. ok ?
The goal is to unlock the software for good, not for one single run of course.
I trust you but I'd love to see exactly step by step how you would hack my software.
I'm not a hacker but read a bit a bout. Your protection is very easy for any beginner hacker because he will try the first lesson he learned
1- Run the target application under debugger control.
2- Show activation dialog and enter any invalid password.
3- When wrong password message appear, back to the debugger and start analysis that code portion to find a way to bypass the wrong password message.
No offense. But the average person cannot even read PNG format. Hackers have tools, like debuggers, that don't require source code. In fact, source code is hardly ever available to hackers; yet they do their job well. If you want to challenge your application, see if some hacking site will accept it. That's my opinion
Insomnia is just a byproduct of, "It can't be done"
I'm not in any way questioning if it can be hacked or not. I used the most basic and elementary encription methods so it's obvious it can be hacked by professional hackers.
I just wanted to see how easy it is to get around since most of you said it was so easy.
Anyhow I'm registering some hackin site to get their opinion too
Anyhow I'm registering some hackin site to get their opinion too
Better idea it think. Posting a project on this site, PSC, or other code sites, and asking them to hack your app is a waste of your time. VB'ers may know how to code in VB, create executables, use executables. Some may even know a bit about what an executable looks like, and how it works, at the bit level, but a vast majority have no idea; nor do they care.
This is the wrong place for such a "challenge". Kind of like a company sending their newest, greatest, CPU to the sales department and asking them to improve it's capabilities.
Last edited by LaVolpe; Jan 8th, 2012 at 11:35 AM.
Insomnia is just a byproduct of, "It can't be done"
Although your original source code is in VB6, your question doesn't really relate to VB6 at all. As a result, I am moving the thread to the Code It Better forum.