Exetools and exe-scene

[quosego]

I thought I had a query about what you think could be the next big thing in exe-scene. Well, maybe it was deleted due to inappropriate discussion.

Yeah saw that question as well, found it quite appropiate and interesting.
But honestly it's hard to say.. Imho to up the ante they have to go hardware.
There's not much left in x86..

There are less people into hardware hacking than RE, so there's some gain there.. But well if they go hardware RE goes hardware as well.. So it should be a nice new round in the battle between DRM and crackers.

However I doubt it's feasible, no sane person would give up the free computer model and turn them into restrictive consoles.

Originally Posted by quosego

However I doubt it's feasible, no sane person would give up the free computer model and turn them into restrictive consoles.

Quite true.

At the moment, our computing model is still more or less a static model. Code is compiled into static instructions. Packers have static signatures. Data is treated as data, code is treated as code. So in a sense, it is still a (albeit less) restrictive console.

Maybe the future is in dynamicism. Code and data is mixed up, stirred well, one cannot tell if it's code or data. Code is generated on-the-fly, morphing from time to time.