Software piracy scene and r/CrackWatch

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I read too many testimonies of trans and ex-trans people of both biological genders. Th ex-trans people do not normally mention any fetishism, but rather how their older elatives abused them or otherwise roped them into 'experiments with gender', that is, troongrooming. I also read about some studies that most teenagers, especially biological girls, who have 'trans feelings' outgrow them later in life through puberty. After all, you are going to be 'dysphoric' if your body and mind are suddenly changing to something else.
I say that a lot of trans people merely have autogynesexuality (and, in theory, autoandrosexuality), yet I also say that a lot of trans people have true and honest gender identity disorder.
Why do you think tomboys and twinks are the most likely to fall on this shit? It doesn't even have to be an abuse thing, just feeling weird cause hormones are weird and some groomer degenerate can derrail your whole life because Lucy who loves action movies and feels insecure due to her frekles and small chest is clearly a stunning and brave MAN.
 
Why do you think tomboys and twinks are the most likely to fall on this shit? It doesn't even have to be an abuse thing, just feeling weird cause hormones are weird and some groomer degenerate can derrail your whole life because Lucy who loves action movies and feels insecure due to her frekles and small chest is clearly a stunning and brave MAN.
I do not feel tha tomboys and sissies are the most likely to fall, though the trans movement does have a large interest in convincing tomboys and sissies tha they are trans because they do stuff that is traditionally considered masculine and feminine.
I agree with you on the rest, hough.
 
I do not feel tha tomboys and sissies are the most likely to fall, though the trans movement does have a large interest in convincing tomboys and sissies tha they are trans because they do stuff that is traditionally considered masculine and feminine.
I agree with you on the rest, hough.
Ok, fair, I will rephrase it to some of the likeliest targets to peddle their bullshit at.
 
Before the crack I was looking her up and seeing what others were saying, ironically someone accused her of being a transman. Her style of writing reminds me of LCF more than anything. I really want to cling to the idea that the biggest cracker nowadays is actually an unhinged woman. Both Empress and fitgirl are accusing each other of being men which is also very typical in LCF/CC.
 
A troon would never say anything against troons, would he?
Non of them are on the "same team" they are all only trying to validate their self destructive choices and paper thin lies. They only use each other as examples to justify their extreme actions as normal "see look they do it too!".
They will quickly throw each other under the bus if they think it will help maintain their own delusion.
 
if anyone with such skills is STILL in Russia (good IT fled from it after the war)
lmao faggot retard
"Good IT" are people with families, not soyshit globohomo whores like yourself. A normal man isn't going to uproot his family and run off to an anti-white ethnic state or a tropical whorehouse to lick hohol taint on twitter. A rare exception is someone who'd previously been retarded and/or unlucky to get drafted against his will (but has shaped up since and is now "good IT") and is now eligible for mobilization.
 
the cracking scene feels like a remnant of late 90s and early 00s internet culture, love them and their work

Just replying to this coz the rest of the site is a bit janky at the moment.

Scene is still alive, but in very small amounts. Games are a much bigger demographic than audio software, but audio software is probably where you will find the most high level crackers working. Sure, 3D programs and CAD need to be cracked too, but the protections aren't as bad most the time. They have other ways of getting your money. Licensing and the need to have a 'legit' copy when you sell your work. Anyone who ever went to uni and used a cracked 3D program that cost thousands knew they weren't sticking it to the man when they met the company reps and they said "oh yeah, we know you're using cracks - but you're gonna need to use legit software when (if) you ever do any proper stuff".

Having said that, some companies do really get a 'b' in their bonnet about this shit and go full gung-ho against crackers. Happens in the audio world too. Companies like Tone2 actually released software that scanned your HD for crack software and deleted keys from the registry. They rightly got a lot of shit about that. But there are others too. In the audio world you will find the most nefarious and fiendishly simple of copy protections. See also u-he software and the beauty of the 'timebomb'.

I've been studying reverse-engineering for decades now, though I'm not a cracker. Never heard of Denuvo before - guess it's more of a game thing. I just had a quick look what protections it was based on and it seems to be basic CR (Challenge/Response) coupled with machine fingerprinting and then online/inline re-assembly of their code when they get their unique UID's for redeployment on the target machine. No wonder it eats through CPU cycles the way the Gunt eats Cheeze Pizzas! It's a combination of one of the most basic protection mechanisms out there, coupled with one of the most complex.

Good luck if you ever bought a legit copy of this software and the company goes bust so it can't fulfill it's 'Response' part. Many such cases. Sad.

Couple of things stand out here. First is that this program does seem to actually be cracked, so this is not vaporware. Second, it does have the look and feel of a genuine crack group, or at least someone pretending to adhere to those ideals. OP Cracker has credentials, so I assume she/he * is legit.

OP Cracker gave some clues about copy protection and they kind of make sense to my untrained brain. They don't give away the farm with exactly how they do it. But ascribing to the hubris that all great crackers have, they can't help but explain how clever they are and also give breadcrumbs and clues for other aspiring crackers. Something to do with virtualisation of function calls.

This release includes new technology advancement █ ▓██
██▓ █ that allows me to start REMOVING denuvo cancer from █ ▓██
██▓ █ the exe. It is STILL new hence this is a hybrid █ ▓██
██▓ █ crack between old license method and a new one █ ▓██
██▓ █ that allowed me to devirtualize 102 game functions, █ ▓██
██▓ █ COMPLETELY restore them and REMOVE the denuvo █ ▓██
██▓ █ CANCER from them. █ ▓██
██▓ █ █ ▓██
██▓ █ I devirtualized the most performance critical █ ▓██
██▓ █ game functions to ensure maximum smoothness and █ ▓██
██▓ █ MUCH BETTER experience than the original bloated █ ▓██
██▓ █ with that cancer on every action you do in the █ ▓██
██▓ █ GAME. █ ▓██
██▓ █ █ ▓██
██▓ █ Here are some of the fully restored functions' █ ▓██
██▓ █ VAs: 0x141CF4650, 0x142C72E20, 0x1427A5020, █ ▓██
██▓ █ 0x142E635E0, 0x1427A52F0, 0x1427F1B10 █ ▓██
██▓ █ and so on ... :) █ ▓██
██▓ █ █ ▓██
██▓ █ Your MBAs on all your new versions are completely █ ▓██
██▓ █ NEUTRALIZED. This is just my middle finger to you, █ ▓██
██▓ █ RETARDS.

They also use the word "Cancer", which is a pretty common word used today by those who have had their machines stolen from them, whether by big bad bill gates or the evil googles. It perfectly portrays a system almost totally metastasized and absorbed by this 'borg' shit. It's a strong motivator for the few that can, to keep fighting against this shit. It's reason enough, but few have the time or the will or the resources (or the autism) to do it.

So far, so legit. I mean, someone, somebody is doing this, releasing it. Hell, it might even be the company themselves in some kind of 4-D Chess move. But I tend to think that OP Cracker is a genuine person, working as a lone wolf, or probably more likely a very small 'crack' team with an impenetrable inner circle. They are probably incels. No insult intended. I mean, who wouldn't be, learning the finer points of decompilation and disassembly every working hour for a decade or more at least?

Another thing that seems strange is the fact about the offer and payment of $500 to do the crack. Taking payment or making money with warez is highly frowned upon in the cracker community. It's a big No No! It's all supposed to be about making the world a better place, plus there is the plausible deniability for if (when) they get caught. Admitting to making money or doing it for cash just added another decade or so on to your prison sentence. It's a very low brag. And for someone cracking protection at this (high) level it really stands out to me.

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Ok, to the question of whether this is a man woman troon trap? Who the fuck knows. There aren't many women in the cracking scene and those there are, are flying under the radar. Crackers are mostly incels. If you were a REALLY good cracker AND a woman, that would paint a massive target on your head. No honour among thieves and little honour among crackers (though they do kind of need to keep it quiet, else they all get busted).

Probably the biggest cracking group around today - R2R - are supposedly Japanese (with fairly good evidence) ** and even more supposedly supposed to be made up of at least one or two women that they call "witches". But that might be a red herring OpSec/PerSec kind of thing or an anomaly of translation.

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They tend to post their cracks at daytime Japanese time and night time Euro time. Exegesis of their texts tends to imply they are Japanese speakers. Also they have purely Japanese software cracked which kind of shows they have at least one fluent Japanese speaker on the team. Who knows.

People don't realise when they download the odd crack from these teams that the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI5/MI6 (lol) have whole 'crack' teams dedicated to hunting them down. Ok, maybe not that much, but not far off. If they ever get caught they will do hard prison time. They might even get out after 6 months, but they are going down. The lolyers of Adobe and Tone2 et al will make sure of that. This is not a kid's prank.

You have to be ultra paranoid to survive at this level. There is no way you ever let anyone in to your world. The only way you can get caught with this level of paranoia is making a silly mistake, like Dread Pirate Roberts using an OG email addy or Rawmeo (of RooshV fame) who got caught posting and boasting on that forum and ended up getting whacked in an Australian prison cell the way McAffee did in Spain. But I digress.

So yeah, you throw out bullshit. Who cares. Those in the scene. Those that matter to you. Those 2nd and 3rd removed are the ones you really want to impress. Because it's all about the impressing, not the cash. Those are the people whose attention and kudos you crave. PerSec. OpSec.

And yeah, it could be a woman. It could be a trans. It could be a fat bloater Ruskie with an enlarged liver and heart who is about to croak it in 18 months, taking all his deepest darkest secrets with him. Who cares.

But it seems like this particular protection has been well and truly cracked. To a functional level at least. The finer points need ironing out. But as a proof of concept, it's not half bad.

I can see why this specific CP has never been deployed on audio software/machines. The penalty hit would be far too great. Sure, gamers like to 'hone' and 'game' their experience so they get every last drop of juice out of their particular CPU/GFX card. But the game still runs. AND IT IS NEVER FAST ENOUGH!!!

With audio, there are many use casess where a protection scheme like this would push a system over the edge. So those that use it would stand out like sore thumbs and people would just choose to use less intrusive methods.

I mean, the methods are already intrusive. One of the hallmarks of a crack by R2R is how they say that the iLok busted CP actually runs faster than the real deal. In fact, they go in to a lot of detail sometimes how much more efficient the crack is, even giving coding details to the developers to change the protection so they can better protect their software. That's game! And sometimes the devs actually do implement it, and then it takes them another long time to crack it again.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!!

Recently u-he software got cracked. That was years and years before anyone could do anything about Urs's timebombs. But they did it eventually. They used a different way around the houses, but they got there. At the end of the day, it's all illegal anyway, and they (and those that use the software) are breaking the law. All is fair in love and war.

Having said that, companies like u-he are doing better than ever (I just bought nearly a grand's worth of software from them the last 2 years, even if it is all cracked now). And the 2 owners of Image-Line who own Fruity Loops (FLStudio) - which is the most widely used Digital Audio Workstation in the world - and just bought Melda and UVI (plus others) well, they have both got 40 Million in the bank each, and now is the time they want to shift over to copy protection mechanisms very similar to what Denuvo is, in all but name.

There is first a Challenge and Response carried out over internet connection. Then they fingerprint the machine. They collate both IP addys and UID's of the machine in use. It's very intrusive, it takes time, it's a pain in the arse for the legit end user who spent thousands of pounds on it (Me), but hey ho, once Venture Capital or rather Private Equity gets involved, they have to be seen to be doing something to protect their IP (Intellectual Property). LOL.

It's a game of cat and mouse.

Whether Empress (OP Cracker) is a woman or not, has a penis or not, matters little. It's always possible. But for reasons already outlined, is highly unlikely. Then again, women like Cristina Cifuentes who wrote one of the major seminal papers on Decompilation - https://yurichev.com/mirrors/DCC_decompilation_thesis.pdf - that a lot of wanabee crackers still need to read to this day if they want to crack the very much undocumented windoze API - well, let's just say she wasn't alone. But it's not something you really want to advertise in a nerd (and therefore incel) kind of culture.

There's a greater game afoot here. You won't get real crackers or even real people involved in the scene talking about this. It's hush hush, for reasons also already outlined. It takes a long time to be accepted in to these groups. Loyalty is fierce. Social approval from peers is far more meaningful than social disapproval from noobs/leaches.

It's fun and it's just shitposting, I get it. It's always interesting to hear about different facets from the 'scene' though.
 
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You have to be ultra paranoid to survive at this level. There is no way you ever let anyone in to your world. The only way you can get caught with this level of paranoia is making a silly mistake, like Dread Pirate Roberts using an OG email addy or Rawmeo (of RooshV fame) who got caught posting and boasting on that forum and ended up getting whacked in an Australian prison cell the way McAffee did in Spain. But I digress.
I have always maintained that the sole reason that the US government was so harsh in their sentencing of DPR/Ross Ulbricht (double life sentence with NO CHANCE of parole, and hundreds of millions of dollars in "restitution" owed) was that the Silk Road was the catalyst for legitimizing crypto on a large scale. Governments are never fans of currency that they can't control. Meanwhile Dupont, Monsanto and the Sackler family, (Owners of Purdue pharma, makers of oxycontin and the largest contributing factor to the opioid epidemic) can literally poison the entire planet, or kill millions, and the government will levy a pointless fine and look the other direction.
 
I don't know where else to say, but I will say it anyway, despite being a lukewarm take:
That one russian-based counter-strike forum is the best to download paid but half-assed mods, not because those are worth it, but to see racedepartment's users meltdown over it.
as per usual, pirates are based.
(And I'm not ashamed to admit that I long for the days when Tunngle was still operational. It's absurd there is no valid alternative to it yet)
the cracking scene feels like a remnant of late 90s and early 00s internet culture, love them and their work
comes with all the drama, ego, and anti government sentiment
and with it, the old rules also still applies, especially that one which stated that there are no women on the internet. And that feeding the troll is a bad idea

A troon would never say anything against troons, would he?
s/he would, Sophia Narwitz is a prime example of it.
 
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By the way, empress claimes in a 3 years old article they are 23... now they claim to be 22

Did they implement a time machine that reverses aging?

So far I see a wired article where she claims to be 23 3 yrs ago but currently on telegram "she" claims to be 22. It seems like literally everything she spews and writes is a lie besides working cracks. She also claims to be russian but doesnt speak any Russian

 
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