[bena]

Ah. So it's a lot like editing compiled binaries.

You can modify binaries all you want as long as you preserve the length of everything.

Some piece of software we had authenticated against a server, but everything was done on the client. The client executed SQL against the server directly, etc. Basically, the server checked to see if this client would put you over the number of licenses you purchased and that's it.

I had run it against a disassembler, found the part where it performed the check, and was able to change it to a straight JMP and then pad the rest of the space with NOPs.