That's an interesting anti-pirating technique... Demonstrate how to crack your own licensing, while at the same time adding a backdoor to make users conflate the two. Obviously, all cracked versions of his software have backdoors in them...
Except his attack is valid against all unsigned binaries... even his own. He could be distributing a backdoor and not even be aware of it...
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That's an interesting anti-pirating technique... Demonstrate how to crack your own licensing, while at the same time adding a backdoor to make users conflate the two. Obviously, all cracked versions of his software have backdoors in them...
Except his attack is valid against all unsigned binaries... even his own. He could be distributing a backdoor and not even be aware of it...
My startup creates software for use in penetration tests and red team assessments. I distribute backdoors and I'm quite aware of it. :)
I wrote this post to show how to use my software to backdoor a pirated copy of my software.