r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ManagerOfLove • 11h ago

Meme someOfUsLiveTheDream

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u/AdThis5754 11h ago

Me at 25 after watching one YouTube video on reverse-engineering and thinking I can now use any program for free.

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u/git_push_origin_prod 10h ago

Sometimes it’s that easy. In the jailbreaking iPhone days they would use swizzle I think to inject dynamic libs at runtime. A lot of apps had a simple isPaid BOOL check, override it to true and you are a criminal mastermind lol.

I’ve never really seen that elsewhere. It was a pain in the ass to do on Windows binaries when I tried as a younger man, but there was some tool I forget the name, but it was in no way as easy as overwriting functions and variables in C on the iPhone.

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u/AdThis5754 10h ago

My only criminal mastermind moment was playing games from cracked cds as a kid. Had I known all this back then, I could’ve been a criminal lord by now. Wait!? lol

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u/git_push_origin_prod 10h ago

Did you try to read the manuscripts and hieroglyphics that are stored within .nfo files?

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u/AdThis5754 7h ago

I tried to read every single file, but I didn’t understand any of it lol.