CORE cracktro logo, screen captured from CORE10K.EXE by the artscene group cRO.
Challenge of Reverse Engineering, better known as CORE, is a software cracking group for the IBM PC which was founded in June of 1997 by a team of members from Ontario, Canada. Within four years the group made more than 10,000 releases (cracks, key generators and the like). These days the group is laying low with fewer members but it is still active. Image File history File links CORE cracktro logo, screen captured from CORE10K.EXE by the artscene group cRO. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links CORE cracktro logo, screen captured from CORE10K.EXE by the artscene group cRO. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user which cracking crew or individual cracker was responsible for removing the softwares copy prevention and distributing the crack. ... The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short refers to a community of individuals and groups who are interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ... Software cracking is the modification of software to remove encoded copy prevention. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked 4th... A keygen designed specifically for . ...
Current members
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nutcracker
References
Mendham, Scott. "Cracking Up", PC World Magazine (alt.net column), December 1999.
Reverseengineering is the scientific method of taking something apart in order to figure out how it works.
On its face, because circumvention is generally required for reverseengineering, this prohibition would prevent reverseengineering of those measures that control access to a copyrighted work.
Leaffer discusses the various legal challenges to the legality of reverseengineering with an emphasis on the narrow contours of reverseengineering permitted by the DMCA.
Reverseengineering, as the name implies, is the reverse of this; in other words, the attempt to recapture the top level specification by analysing the product - "attempt" because it is not possible in practice, or even in theory, to recover everything in the original specification purely by studying the product.
Since reverseengineering still needs human input, at some stage the reverseengineering process needs to produce a complete system description of the product, to allow a human to work out how the product functions; it is only after this human analysis that the product can be split into its component parts.
The Plaintiff had no evidence of reverseengineering but pleaded that because of the complexity of the algorithm, it must be presumed to have occurred and the burden of disproof should lie on the Defendant.
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