A while ago, I came across this blog: Levis’s Little Blog about Reverse Code Engineering (RCE) | All about Reverse Code Engineering.
It is of a beginning reverse engineering guy, doing reverse engineering of parts of application code, and being part of a REPT scene publishing key generators and crackers of software.
I think the interesting part is not so much his skill level, but has these aspects:
- his choice of tools and how he develops skills tells you much about the scene and how they work
- examining the keygens, cracks, etc, tells you a lot about how well the software is that we write
- the abundance of people like him and the available tools basically void every copy protection scheme you can imagine
Part of his toolset are come from a few video tutorials he posted about, where this is in the context menu of a .EXE file: Read the rest of this entry »