Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993)

Re:Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993) by kuschku on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:57AM (#10772004)

Well, you wrote about software you used trying "to directly damage the CPU."

That definitely sounds like malicious intent from the devs.

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Re:Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993) by jacquesm on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:47PM (#10772272)

I was the dev, checking if this was actually possible. And - much to my surprise I might add - it was.

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Re:Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993) by kuschku on Monday December 21, 2015 @03:53PM (#10773428)

oh, interesting. Still, it’s not really a great idea to damage your users’ systems. Liability and everything.

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EDIT: Due to HN blocking me from posting new comments, I’ll answer here:

Yes, I’m sorry, I had originally thought you were talking about the same as the parent you replied to: Software that tries to physically hurt your system when you try to debug it.

We can only be lucky that that isn’t possible today anymore, considering the fact that malware is widespread by now, it’d surely have used a "pay 20$ or your PC is dead" scheme otherwise.

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Re:Anti-Debugging Tricks (1993) by jacquesm on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:08PM (#10773887)

The system was my own.

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