Old Red Cracker (abbreviated +ORC) is an anonymous
reverser. He was one of the pioneers of publishing cracking lessons on the
Internet
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. While his identity is unknown, reverse engineer
Fravia
Francesco Vianello (30 August 1952 – 3 May 2009), better known by his nickname Fravia (sometimes +Fravia or Fravia+), was a software reverse engineer, who maintained a web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers. He also worke ...
had email correspondence with him and spread his tutorials.
Fravia post on de.org.ccc
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Old Red Cracker founded the so-called "High Cracking University" (+HCU), to conduct research into Reverse Code Engineering (RCE). The addition of the "+" sign in front of the nickname of a reverser signified membership in the +HCU. +HCU published a new reverse engineering problem annually.
See also
*Security hacker
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge ...
*Software cracking
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software (software cracker), especially copy protection featur ...
Notes and references
External links
*http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/Orc.htm
In search of an Enigma - the Hunt for the Old Red Cracker
Unidentified people
Hacking (computer security)
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