Software piracy groups have a heavy presence in China, Russia, Romania, Poland and Brazil. Crackers, highly skilled, ethically challenged geeks are tasked with defeating a software’s defenses through reverse engineering. Packers, the next step, package the cracked software for easy distribution. Can the good guys stop reverse engineering? “It’s practically impossible to do,” says Dr. Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist at Security Innovation, an application security company. The piracy rate in 2004 was 35 percent worldwide in a market worth more than $90 billion.”]
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