Revirgin related essays
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Unpacking: a generic
approach, including IT rebuilding. by Predator
~revirgin essay
Iris v2.00 build 44~another great revirgin essay
by BlackB.
Copylok by Kilby ~ first essay
using revirgin (updated now march 2001)
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Fravia's
archive
pages of
reverse
engineering
Fravia's Nofrill
Web design
('98,'99)
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October 1999
Version
November 1999 |
Software reverse engineering and web survival arguments
Software protection techniques and tools
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Anonymity on the Web: stalking, enemy tracking and other techniques
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Reality cracking and anti-advertisement techniques and tools
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How to search the web: combing, klebing and other strategies
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cookies removal; bots and web-spiders trapping; anti-Micro$oft and
anti-Netscape scripts and tricks; tools for software reverse engineering;
cgi-cracking; user self-defense; corporate survival counter measures;
home-pages capering and password cracking techniques; commercial smut
sites busting; Java applets reversing; vxd monitoring; steganographical
and cryptological reversing matters; Javascript based site protection and
deprotection techniques; email patterns reversing
On the Web since 1995! |
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If you have landed here for the first time, or if you are interested in the
history of this site,
read a
word to the confused ones before proceeding
My reader, this labyrinth of pages (you'll never be able to count them all :-)
contains many teachings, and will help you gain knowledge that you will not find
elsewhere. Please wander slowly inside: sip a good
cocktail,
take your time and explore at a leisurely pace. You'll find lessons on how to
reverse engineer windows, dos, linux and palmtop programs, both in order to
protect or to deprotect them (fairly easy, once you learn it); on how to search
the Web using advanced techniques like 'combing' and 'klebing' (not so easy); on
how to gain real information (pretty difficult), on how to track pseudoanonymous
people on the web (fairly difficult), on how to protect your anonymity browsing
the Web (quite difficult), on how to reverse the reality around you (very
difficult), on how to destroy web sites you do not like (easy... given some
conditions), on how to use (and detect) steganographical encryptions, on how to
reverse or implement javascript based site protections, on how to annoy
spammers, reverse web-agents, trap bots, write your own spiders and much more. I
hope you'll enjoy this visit. Your critics and suggestions are welcome.
Fravia+
__Disclaimer
of liability__
I do disclaim thee, Oh Liability! All information on my site is
published for educational purposes only. You may reverse engineer, debug or
crack only applications or programs you have legitimately bought, and only for
your personal use. You may bomb or nuke only sites and pages that are really
lame and/or pathetically commercial-oriented :-)
Read my short essay: Is reverse engineering
legal?
Special disclaimer
About the part of my site dealing with reversing protection schemes
Please note that I have always been a very sensible person: if any programmer
with a legitimate interest really thinks that an essay published on my site
should be removed and put on a non-public part of the fortress, I usually will
comply. with a legitimate interest with a legitimate interest
Yet this will hurt the protectors, not the warez-crackers out there:
"secrecy" in an Internet polluted with warez and serial numbers (that
I despise) does NOT make any sense: I believe -on the contrary- maximum
transparency to be a very important WEAPON for all software developers and for
all protectors and Fravias alike. My site is a forum where anyone can learn
HOW software "ticks", WHY commercial protections do not work and why
there are much better things to do with our knowledge than releasing tons of
crackz and warez to the lamers of the world. In fact I believe that you will
learn here -if anything- how to protect better your programs.
__Good
browsers and bad browsers__
Which browser are you using, my good reader?
I advice those of you still using Netscape (or, even worse, M$IE) to download
and use from now on Opera,
an extremely highly configurable, powerful, easy to reverse and lean (less than
a million bytes!) browser that will let you forget once for all both overbloated
browsersaurii and their terrible bugs. Of course you are allowed to use
Netscape
on my site (if you do, take care: the best version is -by far- good old and
solide version 3, not the overbloated and buggy versions 4, 4,5 & 5).
Now, please, try to understand: you may NOT use Micro$oft's puke on my site!
(Watch it! Some pages just " play" hostility, some are seriously M$IE
hostile, so: don't complain you have not been warned! :-)
__Entrances to Fravia's fortress__
"if your browser is poor click on the red..." "if your browser is
poor click on the red..." "if your browser is poor
click on the red..."
N.B.: The essays' database
is at the moment NOT being updated |
Fravia's past updates
Fravia's blackboard! |
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__Fravia's counters and anti-spam links__
I don't use public counters nor public trackers any more, since I can easily
track all my visitors wherever they go (see here a detailed explanation). I'll
just keep my own counter above (started in July 1999 and not working on the
mirrors) and the Websitestory counter below, both count only the daily visitors
with "load images" settings who wait patiently at the main entrance of
the fortress until the Websitestory server has planted its cookie (i.e. mostly
new visitors). Since I'll never commercialize my site, this is cool, if a little
snob: lotta real visitors (more than 80000 "hits" daily actually,
according to my fortress server's loggings), yet low profile! new
__On the way out__
Goodbye, please damage Microsoft
homepage
links
anonymity +ORC
students'
essays academy
database bots
wars
antismut
tools
cocktails
javascript
wars search_forms
Is
reverse engineering illegal?
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full-recyclable electrons, respects all directives of the European Union
regarding environment, please don't litter. and advertisement and
advertisement
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the Editor.
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Ignore this link. It connects to a bunch of phony
E-mail addresses to frustrate address-gathering spiders from the stupid
spammers... add such a page to your main page too, and make things more
difficult for the silly commercial oriented idiots. I have also prepared a small
page
of advices against commercial spammers.