Software cracking (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Software cracking" in English language version.

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acm.org (Global: 1,185^th place; English: 840^th place)

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Kammerstetter, Markus; Platzer, Christian; Wondracek, Gilbert (October 16, 2012). "Vanity, cracks and malware". Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security. Raleigh North Carolina USA: ACM. pp. 809–820. doi:10.1145/2382196.2382282. ISBN 978-1-4503-1651-4. S2CID 3423843.

anu.edu.au (Global: 942^nd place; English: 597^th place)

people.anu.edu.au

"What Motivates Software Crackers?" (PDF). Sigi Goode and Sam Cruise, Australian National University, Journal of Business Ethics (2006). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 21, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Kevelson, Morton (October 1985). "Isepic". Ahoy!. pp. 71–73. Retrieved June 27, 2014. The origin of the term probably lies in the activity burglars in the still of the night.
Craig, Paul; Ron, Mark (April 2005). "Chapter 4: Crackers". In Burnett, Mark (ed.). Software Piracy Exposed - Secrets from the Dark Side Revealed. Publisher: Andrew Williams, Page Layout and Art: Patricia Lupien, Acquisitions Editor: Jaime Quigley, Copy Editor: Judy Eby, Technical Editor: Mark Burnett, Indexer: Nara Wood, Cover Designer: Michael Kavish. United States of America: Syngress Publishing. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1016/B978-193226698-6/50029-5. ISBN 1-932266-98-4.
Cyrus Peikari; Anton Chuvakin (January 12, 2004). Security Warrior. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 31. ISBN 978-0-596-55239-8.

arstechnica.com (Global: 388^th place; English: 265^th place)

Cheng, Jacqui (September 27, 2006). "Microsoft files lawsuit over DRM crack". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2017.

corrupt-net.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

pre.corrupt-net.org

"Batman.Arkham.City-FiGHTCLUB nukewar". December 2, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. UNNUKED: game.plays.full no.issues crack.is.fine no.single.byte.patch.used protection.bypass.means.not.active.means.removed protection.does.not.kick.in.at.any.point this.or.removal.makes.no.difference [ZoNeNET]

deadbsd.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

rdk.deadbsd.org

Vianello, Francesco. "Academy Home Page". Fravia's archive pages of reverse engineering. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2022.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Kammerstetter, Markus; Platzer, Christian; Wondracek, Gilbert (October 16, 2012). "Vanity, cracks and malware". Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security. Raleigh North Carolina USA: ACM. pp. 809–820. doi:10.1145/2382196.2382282. ISBN 978-1-4503-1651-4. S2CID 3423843.
Craig, Paul; Ron, Mark (April 2005). "Chapter 4: Crackers". In Burnett, Mark (ed.). Software Piracy Exposed - Secrets from the Dark Side Revealed. Publisher: Andrew Williams, Page Layout and Art: Patricia Lupien, Acquisitions Editor: Jaime Quigley, Copy Editor: Judy Eby, Technical Editor: Mark Burnett, Indexer: Nara Wood, Cover Designer: Michael Kavish. United States of America: Syngress Publishing. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1016/B978-193226698-6/50029-5. ISBN 1-932266-98-4.
Wallach, D.S. (October 2001). "Copy protection technology is doomed". Computer. 34 (10): 48–49. doi:10.1109/2.955098.
Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (September 2000). "Global software piracy: you can't get blood out of a turnip". Communications of the ACM. 43 (9): 82–89. doi:10.1145/348941.349002. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 6706490.
Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (1998). "International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts". Information Systems Research. 9 (4): 380–397. doi:10.1287/isre.9.4.380. ISSN 1047-7047. JSTOR 23011033.

drexel.edu (Global: 9,118^th place; English: 5,661^st place)

cs.drexel.edu

Canzanese, Raymond J. Jr.; Oyer, Matthew; Mancoridis, Spiros; Kam, Moshe. "A Survey of Reverse Engineering Tools for the 32-Bit Microsoft Windows Environment" (PDF). College of EngineeringDrexel University. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.

gamecopyworld.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

m0001.gamecopyworld.com

"Backup Protected Game CD/DVDs". GameCopyWorld. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2008.

ijoc.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Reunanen, Markku; Wasiak, Patryk; Botz, Daniel (March 26, 2015). "Crack Intros: Piracy, Creativity and Communication". International Journal of Communication. 9: 20. ISSN 1932-8036. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2022.

jstor.org (Global: 26^th place; English: 20^th place)

Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (1998). "International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts". Information Systems Research. 9 (4): 380–397. doi:10.1287/isre.9.4.380. ISSN 1047-7047. JSTOR 23011033.

megabeets.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Reversing a Self-Modifying Binary with radare2". Megabeets. January 14, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2023.

oreilly.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

examples.oreilly.de

Tulloch, Mitch (2003). Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security (PDF). Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. p. 68. ISBN 0735618771. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.

purdue.edu (Global: 850^th place; English: 625^th place)

cerias.purdue.edu

"Protecting Software Codes By Guards" (PDF). Hoi Chang, Mikhail J. Atallah, CERIAS, Purdue University (2001). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2022.

semanticscholar.org (Global: 11^th place; English: 8^th place)

api.semanticscholar.org

Kammerstetter, Markus; Platzer, Christian; Wondracek, Gilbert (October 16, 2012). "Vanity, cracks and malware". Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security. Raleigh North Carolina USA: ACM. pp. 809–820. doi:10.1145/2382196.2382282. ISBN 978-1-4503-1651-4. S2CID 3423843.
Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (September 2000). "Global software piracy: you can't get blood out of a turnip". Communications of the ACM. 43 (9): 82–89. doi:10.1145/348941.349002. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 6706490.

srrdb.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

FLT (January 22, 2013). "The_Sims_3_70s_80s_and_90s_Stuff-FLT". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. This can be the only reason you have come to the conclusion that a modified startup flow is the same like the imitated behavior of a protection, like an EMU does it.
FLT (September 29, 2013). "Test_Drive_Ferrari_Legends_PROPER-FLT". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends-SKIDROW was released with a "Loader" and not a cracked exe. This is why you see the original exe renamed to "TDFerrari_o.exe". As this is not allowed and in this case considerably slows down the game with Xlive messages while starting and playing the game, you can see why we have included a proper cracked.
SKIDROW (January 21, 2013). "Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. Yes our "method" is a loader and our competitors have used the same method for "cracking" xlive games like this.

ubc.ca (Global: 1,997^th place; English: 1,295^th place)

courses.ece.ubc.ca

Ankit, Jain; Jason, Kuo; Jordan, Soet; Brian, Tse (April 2007). "Software Cracking (April 2007)" (PDF). The University of British Columbia - Electrical and Computer Engineering. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 19, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

vice.com (Global: 175^th place; English: 137^th place)

Pearson, Jordan (July 24, 2017). "Programmers Are Racing to Save Apple II Software Before It Goes Extinct". Motherboard. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

"What Motivates Software Crackers?" (PDF). Sigi Goode and Sam Cruise, Australian National University, Journal of Business Ethics (2006). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 21, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
Tulloch, Mitch (2003). Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security (PDF). Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. p. 68. ISBN 0735618771. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
FLT (January 22, 2013). "The_Sims_3_70s_80s_and_90s_Stuff-FLT". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. This can be the only reason you have come to the conclusion that a modified startup flow is the same like the imitated behavior of a protection, like an EMU does it.
FLT (September 29, 2013). "Test_Drive_Ferrari_Legends_PROPER-FLT". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends-SKIDROW was released with a "Loader" and not a cracked exe. This is why you see the original exe renamed to "TDFerrari_o.exe". As this is not allowed and in this case considerably slows down the game with Xlive messages while starting and playing the game, you can see why we have included a proper cracked.
SKIDROW (January 21, 2013). "Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW". Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. Yes our "method" is a loader and our competitors have used the same method for "cracking" xlive games like this.
"Batman.Arkham.City-FiGHTCLUB nukewar". December 2, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. UNNUKED: game.plays.full no.issues crack.is.fine no.single.byte.patch.used protection.bypass.means.not.active.means.removed protection.does.not.kick.in.at.any.point this.or.removal.makes.no.difference [ZoNeNET]
Cheng, Jacqui (September 27, 2006). "Microsoft files lawsuit over DRM crack". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
Fravia (November 1998). "Is reverse engineering legal?". Archived from the original on March 5, 2022.
Reunanen, Markku; Wasiak, Patryk; Botz, Daniel (March 26, 2015). "Crack Intros: Piracy, Creativity and Communication". International Journal of Communication. 9: 20. ISSN 1932-8036. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
Pearson, Jordan (July 24, 2017). "Programmers Are Racing to Save Apple II Software Before It Goes Extinct". Motherboard. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
Vianello, Francesco. "Academy Home Page". Fravia's archive pages of reverse engineering. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
Ankit, Jain; Jason, Kuo; Jordan, Soet; Brian, Tse (April 2007). "Software Cracking (April 2007)" (PDF). The University of British Columbia - Electrical and Computer Engineering. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 19, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"Protecting Software Codes By Guards" (PDF). Hoi Chang, Mikhail J. Atallah, CERIAS, Purdue University (2001). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
"Backup Protected Game CD/DVDs". GameCopyWorld. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
Canzanese, Raymond J. Jr.; Oyer, Matthew; Mancoridis, Spiros; Kam, Moshe. "A Survey of Reverse Engineering Tools for the 32-Bit Microsoft Windows Environment" (PDF). College of EngineeringDrexel University. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
McCandless, David (April 1, 1997). "Warez Wars". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 16, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

wired.com (Global: 193^rd place; English: 152^nd place)

McCandless, David (April 1, 1997). "Warez Wars". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 16, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

woodmann.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Fravia (November 1998). "Is reverse engineering legal?". Archived from the original on March 5, 2022.

worldcat.org (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)

search.worldcat.org

Eilam, Eldad (2005). Reversing : secrets of reverse engineering. Elliot J. Chikofsky. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. ISBN 0-7645-9768-X. OCLC 80242141.
Reunanen, Markku; Wasiak, Patryk; Botz, Daniel (March 26, 2015). "Crack Intros: Piracy, Creativity and Communication". International Journal of Communication. 9: 20. ISSN 1932-8036. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
Ferguson, Justin; Kaminsky, Dan (2008). Reverse engineering code with IDA Pro. Burlington, MA: Syngress Pub. ISBN 978-0-08-055879-0. OCLC 272383172.
McCandless, David (April 1, 1997). "Warez Wars". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 16, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (September 2000). "Global software piracy: you can't get blood out of a turnip". Communications of the ACM. 43 (9): 82–89. doi:10.1145/348941.349002. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 6706490.
Gopal, Ram D.; Sanders, G. Lawrence (1998). "International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts". Information Systems Research. 9 (4): 380–397. doi:10.1287/isre.9.4.380. ISSN 1047-7047. JSTOR 23011033.

Software cracking (English Wikipedia)

acm.org (Global: 1,185th place; English: 840th place)

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arstechnica.com (Global: 388th place; English: 265th place)

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deadbsd.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

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drexel.edu (Global: 9,118th place; English: 5,661st place)

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purdue.edu (Global: 850th place; English: 625th place)

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ubc.ca (Global: 1,997th place; English: 1,295th place)

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acm.org (Global: 1,185^th place; English: 840^th place)

anu.edu.au (Global: 942^nd place; English: 597^th place)

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arstechnica.com (Global: 388^th place; English: 265^th place)

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