[mahmud]

In the late 90s, I cracked a shareware but didn't do it too well, it was a quick and dirty jump flip; the developer was testing for cracking attempts, and as soon as I left the debugger and stepped back into ring-3 I notice my Windows start button now read "0xDEADBEEF".

[pavlov]

It takes some courage to admit that on a site populated by software entrepreneurs.

(I'm not condemning you -- but I do think that cracking shareware is the computer equivalent of meticulously planning how to steal coins from the collection plate at a slum church.)