HITAM PUTIHNYA REVERSE ENGINEERING
BEBERAPA BAGIAN INTERVIEW ARTEAM (ARTEAM EZINE NUMBER 1)
Interview with Armadillo Developers
6. People and communities, many of them quiet intelligent,
continuously work to understand, and sometimes defeat, the protection
you create. Logically, without them, there would not be a strong a
demand for your product. What is your view on the reverse engineering
community?
In my opinion, the Reverse Engineering community is important.
Reverse Engineering isn’t only used to crack softwares, as most
people tend to think. RE is used by anti virus compagnies to analyse
viruses and other malwares, and such community allows developpment
of tools, techniques etc that can be used for good purpose.
RE is also used to ind holes in Closed source softwares, which
at the end will lead to more secure softwares.
My point of view is, we should diffentiate the Reverse Engineering
community from the Cracking Community. A lot of the people in the RE
community does it for fun and learning purpose without ever harming
anyone. Yet, they will share their knowledge on boards. I think
Software protectionist have a lot to learn from “underground” research
and shouldn’t see them as pirates. (most of the times anyway)
7. Outside of legality how do you react when you ind your protection
has been defeated? Do you hold any respect for a person who creatively
removes your protection?
Yes, there is an amount of respect that must be shown I suppose, my
colleagues may dis-agree. But I believe they’d get more respect from
this side of the fence if they wouldn’t publish methods, stolen keys,
etc. But of course that is not what they are after.
I personaly have respect for people breaking our protection, as long
as its smart and not a thief act, such as stealing credit cards
to obtain a software. I have respect for people spending days
disassembling and debugging our code in order to Find a way to bypass
it , because its a lot of work. I have no respect for the egocentric
kids that brag about their work, and insult us. They tend to forget
we were doing this before they even started to use a computer, and
that there are a lot more things to consider when you are protecting,
than when you are deprotecting.
IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT BLACK OR WHITE !
BAGAIMANA DENGAN ANDA SEBAGAI DEVELOPER ? MUDAH-MUDAHAN ANDA JUGA
BERPIKIR KEDEPAN ! :)
regards
antcode
[INREV team]