Cracking means decompiling the files, debugging the code and finding the bits that check if you have a key/subscription and changing it in such a way that it passes. Not exactly something you can learn from scratch quickly.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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Wow I didn't know it was even possible to decompile compiled code. I know how to code and debug, but you're right this is a big step past my current skills. And of course wouldn't you know it, the decompiling tools for mac are very expensive and aren't available to torrent either. This might be a dead end for me.
Well, thank you, I learned something today.
Generally you can’t reverse it into exactly what was written, but most of the time you can disassemble or decompile just about any program as long as the binary format is known. The legibility of the resulting unraveling may vary depending on language and any methods used to obfuscate the end binary.
Subscription apps are pretty common in the Apple ecosystem. Have you tried a different OS, Windows or Linux? You don't even have to change anything to do so, you can run them in a virtual machine.
Yeah it's unfortunate. I've bought some applications before but like I said, I have them and a license key and they should run forever. I like different machines or OSs for different tasks. This very particular thing I'm interested in is to troubleshoot some (I think) aberrant wake-from-sleep behavior on a mac laptop so unfortunately I don't think that's going to work out.
Though I suppose I could throw Linux on it and see if it still has the same sleep/wake issues, to isolate whether it's a software/OS thing or a hardware issue.