• specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software generally...
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  • of password cracking require the computer to produce many candidate passwords, each of which is checked. One example is brute-force cracking, in which a...
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  • Crack is a Unix password cracking program designed to allow system administrators to locate users who may have weak passwords vulnerable to a dictionary...
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  • $500 for cracking a specific game. She uses the money to cover living costs, hardware upgrades, and purchase games that she intends to crack. Empress...
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  • inform the user which cracking crew or individual cracker removed the software's copy protection and distributed the crack. Crack intros first appeared...
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    Warez scene (redirect from Scene (software))
    specializes in the creation of software cracks and keygens. The challenge of software cracking and reverse engineering complicated software is what makes it an attraction...
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  • digital rights management No-disc crack, software to circumvent Compact Disc and DVD copy protection Password cracking, the process of recovering passwords...
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  • Look up cracking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cracking may refer to: Cracking, the formation of a fracture or partial fracture in a solid material...
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  • only a cracking group or cracker's logo. A software license is a legal instrument that governs the usage and distribution of computer software. Often...
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  • run computer software without having to insert their required CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. This act is a form of software cracking. No-CD cracks specific to a...
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  • The Commodore 64 amassed a large software library of nearly 10,000 commercial titles, covering genres from games to business applications. The Commodore...
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    According to the US Justice Department, Razor 1911 is the oldest software cracking group that is still active on the internet. Razor 1911 ran the diskmag...
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    Demoscene (section Software)
    computer revolution of the early 1980s, and the subsequent advent of software cracking. Crackers altered the code of computer games to remove copy protection...
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    Frena Product activation Public domain Radio music ripping Software copyright Software cracking Trade group efforts against file sharing Trans-Pacific Partnership...
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    the late 1970s (e.g. the Homebrew Computer Club) and on software (video games, software cracking, the demoscene) in the 1980s/1990s. Later, this would go...
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  • Security Account Manager (category Access control software)
    attempt to improve the security of the SAM database against offline software cracking, Microsoft introduced the SYSKEY function in Windows NT 4.0. When...
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    competitor's product was built. That process is commonly used for "cracking" software and media to remove their copy protection,: 7  or to create a possibly-improved...
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  • Computing observed in 1984 that software piracy did not make sense economically to those performing the software cracking. The primary motivation of warez...
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  • lost, performing malware analysis, modifying software (such as binary patching), and software cracking. A disassembler differs from a decompiler, which...
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  • 30 August 2016, seven years after the previous release. L0phtCrack 7 supports GPU cracking, increasing performance up to 500 times that of previous versions...
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  • Trainer (games) (category Software cracking)
    1990s, trainers were generally integrated straight into the actual game by cracking groups. When the game was first started, the trainer loaded first, asking...
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  • Crackme (category Software cracking)
    programmer's reverse engineering skills. Crackmes are made as a legal way to crack software, since no intellectual property is being infringed. Crackmes often incorporate...
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  • International Network of Crackers (category Software cracking)
    the result of the merger of several cracking groups, including Union, based out of Texas, and the Miami Cracking Machine (MCM), based out of Florida....
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  • Code cave (category Software cracking)
    additional dialog boxes, variable modifications or even the removal of software key validation checks. Often using a call instruction commonly found on...
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  • Los Angeles, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California SKIDROW, a software cracking group This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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  • Today, the hobbyists focus on commercial computer and video games, software cracking and exceptional computer programming (demo scene). Also of interest...
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    (computer security) Password cracking Aircrack-ng Crack DaveGrohl Hashcat John the Ripper L0phtCrack Ophcrack RainbowCrack "How to use Cain and Abel"....
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  • electronics company that makes effects pedals for musicians DrinkOrDie, a software-cracking and warez-trading network Drop-on-demand, a printing technology Displacement...
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    Jira (/ˈdʒiːrə/ JEE-rə) is a software product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking, issue tracking and agile project management. Jira is used...
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    overall cracking progress took about a month, an unusually long time in the game cracking scene. When asked about this development, Denuvo Software Solutions...
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