Interview with Yazz, ex-cracker of Radium.   by Radium

Fri Oct 29 23:57:04 1998 <_KaY_> Hi :) <Yazz> Hi <_KaY_> Till how long time do u crack software and how did u begin? <Yazz> Since 1984 on an old Commodore 64 imported from West Germany, i couldnt buy any softs so i cracked them to get them. <_KaY_> Whats your main goal when you crack a new program? <Yazz> Its only fun and learning more about Pc system. <_KaY_> What sort of knowledges do u use to crack proggies? Was it hard or long to learn? <Yazz> The longest to get was experience and to combine asm c coding with understanding in the same time what it does. <_KaY_> Do u use in real life your knowledges to gain money? I mean do u work in computers domain or is it just a passion? <Yazz> No my job is absolutely different... <_KaY_> What are your hobbies in life? Have u got enough time for private life and your cracker work? <Yazz> No real hobbies (except cracking), only little bowling. <_KaY_> Do u practice music in life? <Yazz> No absolutely nothing, I cant play a note! <_KaY_> How did u meet Radium? Why did u accept to work with that group? <Yazz> i meet radium after my cracks for Cubase released for the group called Pentium. Radium has the best power in group management i ever seen! This structure is absolutely cool. <_KaY_> I heard u work for other groups b4? What was them? <Yazz> ~ Pentium-pft now apps ~ Dynasty games ~ Paradigm games ~ Paradox german apps ~ and last but not least Radium. <_KaY_> Which crackers work do u most appreciate? (best coders) <Yazz> ~ Deepzone of Radium ~ Beowolf of Razor ~ Grudge of Class ~ Brainski in coding c win98 ~ and Hankman a newcomer. <_KaY_> Do u think it could be risky for u in the future to still crack pro-software like Vst? Aren't u afraid of Steinberg reactions when they see each time '<Yazz>' nickname in the nfos? ;) <Yazz> Hmmm... I'm not sure, all cracking is risky, but selling cracked stuff is more. <_KaY_> Do u think one day u could stop to crack software? <Yazz> Hmmm... Hard question, i could say yes when i will find a full job which needs my full life - but cracking will stays a little hobby for me till the end of my days on earth :) <_KaY_> Did u ever find uncrackable software? <Yazz> No all is crackable, its only a question of time and power. <_KaY_> Have u got some contacts with soft-developers? <Yazz> No <_KaY_> Would u like to work on the other side? I mean would u like to help software companies or developers to set better protections? (Maybe u alredy did it...?) <Yazz> No they didn't have all phantasies to do easy and good things. <_KaY_> Can u imagine an ultimate protection in the future, what would it be? <Yazz> No. Someone tried with pecrypt 1.02 by using randomized functions, but its too much difficult to understand to be able to use it. I have many ideas to set one but no one is really good at all. <_KaY_> Whats your story with Cubase? Why are u the only good cracker of this prog? <Yazz> Ha! Its only a story of time, i spent very long time to study Cubase protection till its out. <_KaY_> Why VST is so hard to crack especially? How does work the dongle protection? <Yazz> Its not easy to explain in few words. The more difficult in that protection is the program reads information's in the dongle, and each information is different for each function u use. <_KaY_> Does the 3.6 version is harder to crack than the old ones? why? <Yazz> Yes, i think. Im not sure but it seems they did something more than dongle calls. <_KaY_> How many time do u think u need to crack the new 3.6 update (approx)? <Yazz> 1 week with all testing and checking i hope! <_KaY_> Could it be possible to emulate a 100% software dongle that will support all the future updates? <Yazz> Yes with really hard work. <_KaY_> What are the bugs differences beetween your 3553 crack and the dongle version? <Yazz> There is none. <_KaY_> Did u get some feedback yet from steinberg about your cracks? <Yazz> No and i hope i wont get some in the future. <_KaY_> Did u try to work on Logic protection yet? Do u think Cubase dongle is harder of Logic one to crack? <Yazz> Yes i tried it, a hard thing in 16/32 bit coding with segmentation. Deepzon3 and int 69 are the best guyz for this job. 40% logic 60% steinberg <_KaY_> What do u think about warez, could it become death of software development? <Yazz> No. Most warez dont work for users. They must pay and get beta version without testing and something, This is the real prob! <_KaY_> What would u like to add or tell to audiowarez users? <Yazz> I hope you like Radium :) <_KaY_> Thnx for all <Yazz> :))