Some decompiling, reverse engineering, and keygen tutorials
As a kid fumbling around proprietary Windows binaries, I felt liberated by the ideas of Fravia and +ORC. They taught me that I deserve to know what goes on underneath the software I use. Softice, IDA and w32dasm were the tools of the trade. But most of it were limited to finding where the MessageBox with the trial message pops up and reversing the conditional jump just before it. Here is a small tutorial teaching how to reverse and remove the trial limitation of an ancient version of UltraEdit : <a href="http://71.6.196.237/fravia/uedilas.htm" rel="nofollow">http://71.6.196.237/fravia/uedilas.htm</a><p>But after switching to a fully opensource stack, reverse engineering lost its charm. Understanding how things work is taken for granted and I can't imagine going back to an opaque proprietary environment.<p>Fravia passed away on 2009; but his archives are preserved here: <a href="http://71.6.196.237/fravia/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://71.6.196.237/fravia/index.htm</a>