Download the crackme. cyrex_crackme2 Again, this was very easy (like 1 minute easy). Just do a strings on the file and it will print out the password. It also lists a file in /tmp. Without even looking at the assembly I created the file, and sure enough it worked.
This would probably be a good place to start if you’ve never reversed anything before. Too easy for my taste though, and I’m just a beginner.
In my opinion, the best way to rescue after a failure is a live cd like knoppix. However, there are times when you are a bit unprepared and don’t have the livecd with you, or your machind doesn’t have a cdrom drive, etc. Yes, I could go to my office, grab a spare, bring it back, tear the computer apart, add the cdrom drive and do it that way. Sometimes even this is not an option, like in the case of my tablet, which does not even have an option in the bios to boot from a cd or usb. When I originally installed it was a network install.
This module includes a function you can call to randomly pick an image from a directory. For an example see http://progeny.isu.edu/~lundeen/pages/randompicture.php. (though my websitebaker site is being discontinued). It is based on a module written by John Maats, and I just added the captioning. Pretty trivial…
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