So what exactly is all this shit I've wasted my bandwidth on?
Anonymity
This isn't really much of a kracking tool. Its just useful to repersonalize some apps by deleting the data fork. <Caution> Deleting the data fork may really screw up some programs...
Kracking Tutorials
I haven't personally looked at all these tutorials. I used Kool Krack Tutorial when I first started out and [k] by Vassal somewhat. If I ever get around to looking at the other ones I'll do a comparison article sometime. Hopefully I'll dig up some more tutorials somewhere or maybe even get off my ass and write one. <g>
Another document you might want to get is the Beginner's Assembly Language Tutorial that is bundled with the Shareware compiler Fantasm. This isn't a cracking tutorial, but it'll help you understand assembly to a much deeper level than the ones included here.
<NOTE> Reading of at least one of these is an absolute prerequisite to learning to crack, otherwise you'll have no clue what all that assembly shit in macsbug means.
ResCompare
ResCompare is a nifty tool used by developer's when they want to update an app, but don't want to make their customer's d/l all the same code again. What it does is compare two files and find the differences. It then makes a small program which will update the resources that were changed from an older version to a newer. Obviously you can see that we will use this to distribute our kracks to the masses.
MacNosy v2 [Trimmed]
Besides MacsBug and Resorcerer, MacNosy is the most important tool in a cracker's arsenal. Its called [Trimmed] because I took out a bunch of useless files that took up space to keep the size of ICKK down. Although its interface absolutely sucks, this is a great tool because it dissasembles a program down into procedures and shows how they relate to each other. For example say you want to find where a program that calls ModalDialog (a dialog event), because the program shows a dialog when you type in the wrong serial number. All you do is open the Toolbox traps window and it'll show you each toolbox trap called in the program and which procedure calls them. Narrowing down where you need to change the code becomes simple.
MacsBug 6.5.4a3
This is absolutely the most important cracking tool you have. For those of you who don't know, macsbug is used by developer's to step through their program's instructions as its running and figure out where a problem is occurring so they can deBug it. A light should have appeared above some of your heads as you realize how useful this is to a cracker. What we can do is step through the assembly code as the program's running and figure out where in the code it branches to say "hey dipshit wrong serial number!" or whatever protection it is. And change that instruction so that it branches around it to say "Thanks for paying for this software, you really made our day!"
Just so you don't think dos has taken over your computer when you see it, be forewarned that macsbug is a command line interface and is ugly at best. You WILL learn to love it though.
btw - if you're wondering why I included an alpha version its because 6.5.3 doesn't work on pci based macs. If you have a problem with alphas go d/l 6.5.3 from apple's ftp.
Resorcerer
Resourcerer is, as you might have guessed a resource editor like Resedit. Thats where the likeness stops though. Resorcerer is basically what the designers of Resedit dream about in their sleep. Besides doing everything Resedit does it also take the CODE resource and like nosy dissasembles it, and also gives a list of the different Routines you can jump through. Nosy and Resorcerer are basically a tradeoff - they work well together, but its good to have both of them because sometimes one works better than the other at disasembling and organizing an app's code.
PowerPC Dissasemblers
I need to study more on this subject before I write about them...
FolderPict
This isn't a cracking tool, its a little shareware app that I cracked and follows most of the techniques outlined in the Kool Krack Tutorial and probably the others too. I just threw it in so you can get some practical experience. I included the crack I made with Rescompare, but only use it if you really can't figure it out and want to see whats different when the registration goes through. Another good shareware app to practice on is File Buddy 4.x.x, the app isn't included to keep down ICKK's size.
Of course if after a few days you can't crack either of these then cracking may not be you're calling in life.
