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Interesting post! I recall a lot of older copy protection instructions around eax:edx register/space. Is there a reason you don’t just JMP around the license validation entirely?

Also, I love your anti-cv!

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Totally, putting some small patches into the binary would definitely work in the case of just wanting to get rid of the licence validation. The goal of my project, though, was to get to a state where the software could be used in its original unmodified state, with a "real" licence. Just felt more authentic! So the process over the 3 parts of the blog series is guided by that final destination.

Re: anti-CV – Thanks! Imposter syndrome is a big problem in medicine, as it is in IT and probably every field, and I wanted to do my little bit to combat it. (Not my idea, got it from my seniors, who got it from some uni professors.)

I think its pretty cool your in the medical field and doing this stuff lol. I've already noticed that "hacking" tends to attract a lot of random people from different disciplines lol

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