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  2. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software generally involves circumventing ...

  3. John the Ripper - Wikipedia

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    John the Ripper. John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. [3] Originally developed for the Unix operating system, it can run on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS ). It is among the most frequently used password testing and breaking programs [4 ...

  4. Gayle Laakmann McDowell - Wikipedia

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    McDowell has also published books on Cracking the PM Interview (for product managers: PMs), Cracking the PM career and Cracking the Tech Career. Her work has been covered widely in the press including coverage in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Fast Company.

  5. The Lifecycle of Software Objects - Wikipedia

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    Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joan Gordon writes that the novella explores interesting ethical questions including the meaning of consciousness. She also writes that the story explores the way in which "subjects – human or non-human – become enmeshed in and trapped by the capitalist system". The story explores this theme with ...

  6. Alan Turing: The Enigma - Wikipedia

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    11516745. Dewey Decimal. 510.92. LC Class. QA29.T8H63. Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The 2014 film The Imitation Game is loosely based on the book, with dramatization.

  7. Warez scene - Wikipedia

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    Warez scene. The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, [1] is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. [2] The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and ...

  8. Demoscene - Wikipedia

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    Demos in the demoscene sense began as software crackers' "signatures", that is, crack screens and crack intros attached to software whose copy protection was removed. The first crack screens appeared on the Apple II in the early 1980s, and they were often nothing but plain text screens crediting the cracker or their group. Gradually, these ...

  9. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords [1] protecting a computer system. A common approach ( brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. [2] Another type of approach is password spraying, which ...