Not the first time, won’t be the last.
How about Microsoft pirating Windows for you?
It’s not really a crack, it’s the corporate activation script. But yeah, MS don’t care about sales anymore, they’re all about stealing your data.
They just want everyone to have Windows at home, so that it keeps being the “normal” OS for corporations. They make so much money… Windows+ CALs, Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, M365, Azure… it’s easier to keep paying them, than to change vendors.
Or the crack was an in-house job and they are just using the in-house patch to get around it.
Imagine if they distributed one of those that contained a strange bind syscall somewhere with a reverse shell.
It means cracker fixed the issue for the developer, right?
Doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Rockstar has gone to shit.
cant even play their legitly purchased SINGLEPLAYER games without internet connection.
I fucking hate rockstarWait… WHAT?
Fucking bsI’m already angry enough that they don’t let me spawn certain vehicles in singleplayer but this is too much. Time to get a cracked version and uninstall that Rockstar Launcher crap.
Source’s source: https://twitter.com/_silent/status/1698345924840296801
The nitter link: https://nitter.net/_silent/status/1698345924840296801
I’ll just stick to 🏴☠️ old games with DRM, why should I give a company 🤑 for redistributing a cracker’s hard work?
What i’m looking at? What is this from?
Hidden text within the app code from the steam folder
So the official files contains a razor 1911 line? This look sus af
In what sense? Incompetence, dodginess, or fake screenshot?
Within the binary of the file *
Yes, I was trying to keep it to a non-technical ELI5
To be fair, if you don’t know what that is at a glance you probably don’t know what the binary of a file is either
When you view or edit a text (.txt) file in a text editor like Notepad, you’re most often opening a file in ASCII encoding that uses the ASCII binary values for common letters, numbers and punctuation. The only values allowed in that kind of file are lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers and punctuation.
You can also view or edit binary files, like executables (.exe), but you typically need a hex editor. If you tried to open a binary file in a plain text editor it wouldn’t know how to handle all the binary values that are not part of the standard ASCII set of letters, numbers and punctuation.
Hex editors show the data in hexadecimal format. They convert the binary data to numbers from 0 to 15 where the numbers 10 to 15 are replaced by the letters A to F. Often to make it clear people are talking about the hex number they add “0x” in front of the number. So, 0 becomes 0x0, 9 becomes 0x9, 15 becomes 0xF, 16 becomes 0x10, and 255 becomes 0xFF. This is an efficient way for people to work with binary data because 16 is 24 or 222*2.
Within binary files, there will still be a lot of sections that are in ASCII. For example, any error messages that have to be printed out for the user to see, like “this program cannot be operated in DOS mode”.
Razor 1911 is an infamous cracker group that has been around for decades. They often “sign” the programs they crack by putting “Razor 1911” inside the files, in a way where you can see it if you open it with a hex editor, but so it doesn’t affect the program.
So, what this is suggesting is that a program that Rockstar has released on Steam is not something they built themselves, but they’re actually distributing a cracked version that was released by Razor 1911.
Remember that time a random player DRAMATICALLY decreased load times for GTA online after finding bad code that preloaded TONS of game assets? After like, a decade?
Pepperidge Farm remembers…
Are you saying the INSANE GTA Online load time is fixed now?
Back in the old day, I literally just throw my hands up and said “I can’t wait for this shit anymore, I don’t have all day” then rage quit and delete the game.
Or its just a piracy check…
