I am really only aware of it being with this project. It's what keeps the developer from implementing any further checks, which has been done before. ProjectH does frequent this thread, from time to time, and will post. So what the fear is, with an auto-cracker is they will put this MD5 check back in and this method will no longer work. So out of respect for the team that made a career out of this, they get one week so they can still earn income and a product can still be made. They are already moving part of the project to only work behind Patreon, on top of ElecKey. So that is an additional check in place.Ah, I read through the conversation and I get it now. I wasn't aware of any of this Bupo stuff - I generally just hit download and move on.
However, I deeply believe in sharing information - it would be a waste of effort and a disservice to the community for me to do research and then hold it back (or intentionally obfuscate it).
I think this is a reasonable compromise: if I have any more code to share I'll make sure to add a 1-week date check. Sound reasonable?
Is the one week delay a site-wide thing? I don't recall ever running into it before (but like I said, I don't generally read long threads).
As for the one week date check, if you share your code, it just is a simple modification. It would be best to just to not release the source code, have it check the API of a time server, and then to run the debug.
I understand your joy of open source. My job requires me working in Linux and a lot of the applications that we use are open source. The main ones are not but our development and monitoring tools are. Open source is great but your software, in this current iteration, while many may love it, I fear is just going to push this project deeper into paywall requirements and reintroduce the MD5 check.
That was for v16 and under. v17 had another protection. A check of the original MD5 of the binary. Showed nonymouse. v18 was funny to look at from an insider's POV (Princess Peach was moved to another castle and Mario could get a good chuckle if he noticed something about where she was (being cryptic because I don't hand out things, I try to teach)).
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