Introduction...
Welcome ....
My handle is ManKind. I am involved in the trade of software reversing
ie. modifying, disassembling, patching, investigating and breaking
softwares and their protections. This rewarding trade, in terms of
knowledge and not monetary value, is quite technical and is sometimes
termed, in a most formal way, as Reverse Code Engineering (RCE)
by the few people among the masses who studied it in-depth. Others
in the software industry who knows our group of people, some which
are actively against our activities, often label us as hackers and
crackers, though generally we prefer the latter and held an obsessed
liking as well as high respect for the "Reverse Engineer"
title (though only revered few deserve the title ;D ).
If you have for the first time stumbled upon a site with content
like mine then probably my text above does not make much sense to
you. Don't worry though, if you find yourself curious about what
has been said thus far and have even the slightest interest in it,
do read on and I will explain more about RCE and this site in the
simplest terms possible. On the other hand, if you already know
the fundamentals of RCE and expect to find some related interesting
contents here, you could do very well by skipping the following
text and begin to browse to other sections of this site.
Crackers like me are aplenty all over the world. Most of us are
interested in breaking or bypassing the protections of certain softwares
(take, for example, the popular WinZip shareware which has a nag
screen as one of its protections), in order to be able to fully
use or evaluate the particular softwares (meaning they no longer
have disabled features or annoying nag screens). That is the broad
consensus that explains why we crack in the first place. However,
many of us boast quite a different story. We crack just for the
sake of cracking - that is we enjoy cracking the protections implemented
in the softwares. I admit we do crack to be able to use certain
softwares but really useful softwares that we intend to crack for
our personal use make up only a small fraction of the number of
softwares that we crack for fun.
Of course, cracking is not entirely legal, but it is not entirely
illegal too. Cracking in the context of RCE studies is indeed a
legal discipline as long as we do not tamper with softwares which
we do not have the rights over in the process. In the course of
the most recent events, it seems that RCE has gained much more
attention and importance, among the people in the IT industry
and academic world alike. In the near future, I am sure RCE
would be declared as legal up to a certain defined limits and
aspiring students of the IT world would have to study, research
and learn about it, for it is quite an indispensable knowledge
to them.
Actually cracking only makes up a small part of RCE which also
encompasses, but not limited to, programming, disassembling, decompiling,
game training, unpacking and cryptoanalysis. Therefore it is safe
to say that RCE studies do provide an extensive knowledge on whichever
branches of it you maybe interested in. Therefore, if by now you
are interested to start to pursue some RCE knowledge, be it cracking
or other aspects, you could proceed to the other sections through
the links I have provided on the menu on the left.
Unfortunately, however, if you find that RCE is not your cup of
tea, you should leave this site and maybe search for other sites
of your interest using the following effective search engine:
Google Search Engine ;)
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