On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 00:11 +0200, David GLAUDE wrote:
Let's say that I will be more dangerous having access to the code and beeing able to recompile after changing the power adjust function than changing random bytes with an hexadecimal editor into the HAL binary file.
It does not make security by obscurity less false or fake, but it is obvious that if I poke into a binary there are less chances that I will optain the expected goal (especially if the binary is CRC protected against peaple like me. ;-)
Proprietary software cracks exist since a lot of time, so your claims that tinkering with an hex editor has less chances are not supported by facts. Do you think that bypassing hardware keys is esier than a software CRC check ?
Simo.