How cracking started...

[Aesculapius]

This is an small historical article that I recently realized was published on how the wonderful world of cracking started. In reality it started before this but let's say the teaching was public at this moment. This forum is the oldest devoted to this subject (for English speaking crackers) with Over 15 years online (somebody correct me please) so I guess it's important to know the roots of the hobby that many of us have enjoyed for so many years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Red_Cracker


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Interesting read indeed we have come a long way

[Git]

(Haven't read Red's article yet)

I've been here 14 years which is less than a lot of people, and cracking was well established then. I remember cracking an Amiga game straight off audio data cassette which had an encrypting loader. The mysterious depths of XOR I believe . Anyway, that must be somewhere between 20 and 25 years ago, and there was plenty of cracked 'warez' around at that time. There were cracking groups before that, communicating by FidoNet and sharing data via direct modem dial-up ftp sites. The internet was in it's infancy and not something the majority of people had acess to unless you were in USA universities. Discussion was by Usenet news groups, distributed via Fidonet.

Of more interest and concern is when did cracking start dying|?

Git (old)

[bolo2002]

Originally Posted by Git

(Haven't read Red's article yet)

I remember cracking an Amiga game straight off audio data cassette which had an encrypting loader.

Amiga wasn't that old to use audio cassette,it were probably a c64

[bigboss-62]

Originally Posted by Git

I've been here 14 years which is less than a lot of people, and cracking was well established then.

Sorry to reopen this "old answer" but how old are u Git ?

Btw, in my side, i started cracking on CPC (good old speedlock and casssys on CPC tapes) when i was 12 years old (followed with Amiga (RNC protection), then PC Dos games)...

I feel like I'm getting old (I'm almost fifty now )

[cybercoder]

Cracking started dying once there was no longer a need, i.e. tablets, iPad's, phones... PC's starting to become obsolete..

[The Old Pirate]

By the way, has +ORC's riddle been solved?

[DARKER]

Originally Posted by The Old Pirate

By the way, has +ORC's riddle been solved?

check these links, here is mentioned the riddle and some solving/meaning:
http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/Orc.htm
http://www.home.aone.net.au/~byzantium/found/

[Git]

You're right, of course it wasn't. It was an Amstrad CPC 464

[gsaralji]

yes,
any one can do any...
so first learn Cracking Application like
IDAPro, Olly, DotNet Reactor etc.....
You can do

[bolo2002]

Originally Posted by gsaralji

yes,
any one can do any...
so first learn Cracking Application like
IDAPro, Olly, DotNet Reactor etc.....
You can do

No,you can learn and crack but then you must be good enough to understand new protections.

you can learn to play piano,be able to play many songs but unable to compose.

[gsaralji]

Hello Dear
Almost last 0ne yrs not in this work anyway i came back
i started again

Even I have almost zero knowledge still links shared on your discussion opens new ways of learning.

[an0rma1]

Good old +ORC, i published a pair of virtual cpus for serial checking with him! Good old times!
Of course my virtual cpus were totally inspired by infamous SolarDesigner's one.
Regards!

[Evilcry]

In Italy we had ring0 and later UIC that made the story of cracking/reversing scene in my country