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Original Post: This sounds way to cute
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My take is that this is fiction, but hey - decide for yourself. Via the .NET guy:
Someone anonymous posted to the Joel on Software message board about having their software protection cracked in just 3 days. Yeah, typical, but the real interesting one was this anonymous response:
We have a full time employee whose sole job is to be involved in the cracker community. He has high prestige because he has been first out the gate with several high profile cracks -- all of our own software of course. Because he is actively involved in producing high profile, high quality cracks, he has also acquired the personal contact info regarding a large number of other crackers. We maintain a mailing address for him near a foreign branch office to cover his own tracks.
This provides us with a couple of advantages: our cracked software contains a trojan that not only logs information about the users computer, but also scans their system for other cracks. This information is transmitted back to us and we share it with a few other companies that use this system. The information is stored in a database where it is made available to the FBI for use in their own investigations.
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