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Re:A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick by alasdair_ on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:29AM (#26930530)
This reminds me of looking at some Atari ST software in a hex editor around 1990. There were some strings that appeared next to the copy protection code that said “come work for us instead of cracking! Call <number> and Leave your name and address!”

The phone number belonged to the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT)

:)

Re:A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick by junon on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:55AM (#26930846)
Was it a trap? Or did they actually intend to recruit this way? I could see both being true - companies have done stranger things, like Google's site that upon logging in and visiting told you if you got the interview or not based on your search history.
Re:A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick by c3534l on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:05AM (#26931119)
I'm pretty sure FACT is not recruiting developers on behalf of some random game company.