It’s not my war but...

I just saw the following at MSJ and the reaction there is simply childish, to not digress much about it. The author of Remote Buddy leaves the post below, asking for them to stop distributing cracks on his software. As a response, tons of links with the crack are published and they start complaining about the price. I really hope that these guys one day get what they deserve, their works pirated or them exploited by their bosses and underpaid....

February 15, 2011 · 5 min · 1009 words · fG!

Universe’s best and legal Mac OS X reversing tutorial for newbies (or maybe not!)

I have decided to re-release my beginners tutorial, this time based on a crackme, so it deserves the upgrade to Universe instead of World. It includes patching, serial fishing and a keygen. I have updated some errors that I found in the original tutorial. Reversing and breaking protections is a great hobby and fantastic knowledge to possess. The problem is that many abuse this and want to profit from it. I really don’t like not sharing knowledge because sharing also allows me to progress, seeking new challenges and learning new things....

February 12, 2011 · 1 min · 190 words · fG!

Another update to gdbinit for iOS and ARM support to ptool.pl and offset.pl

I have fixed some of the missing stuff in gdbinit for iOS. Now the jump conditions are displayed for ARM and Thumb modes and the stepo command is working for ARM and semi-working for Thumb (to be fixed in the next release). Also implemented minor cosmetic changes. The tools to show Mach-O header information and calculate offsets to be patched were also updated to support ARM binaries. Offset.pl is by default interactive (you can choose from the available architectures in the binary, if fat), and ptool....

February 3, 2011 · 1 min · 170 words · fG!

Need help with code signing in iOS!

Well this one is driving me crazy so better ask for some help before I fire the big guns and go commando mode with this. I’m trying to patch iOS apps so I can remove “spyware” and other stuff. Newest iOS versions require all code to be signed. This article by Saurik talks about 3 different ways to workaround this problem without a developer certificate (an idea that crossed my mind is to configure the kernel only to accept Apple’s certificates and my certificate, to avoid rogue stuff like worms [I have to see if code signing is effective against code injection for example])....

January 28, 2011 · 3 min · 557 words · fG!

gdbinit v0.1 for iOS (iPad at least :-))

I just finished porting gdbinit to iOS. The basic stuff is working except the stepo command (one of my favourites!), the Objective-C selector and showing what will happen with conditional branches (I have to see how to implement this since ARM instructions can be conditional). I have tested it on my iPad with GDB available from Cydia (it seems you can use Apple’s version) and it works, so it should give no special problems with other iOS devices....

January 27, 2011 · 1 min · 179 words · fG!