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Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...
A software license is a legal instrument that governs the usage and distribution of computer software. [1] Often, such licenses are enforced by implementing in the software a product activation or digital rights management (DRM) mechanism, [2] seeking to prevent unauthorized use of the software by issuing a code sequence that must be entered into the application when prompted or stored in its ...
A crackme is a small computer program designed to test a programmer's reverse engineering skills. [1] Crackmes are made as a legal way to crack software, since no intellectual property is being infringed.
Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.
Turnitin (stylized as turnitin) is an Internet-based similarity detection service run by the American company Turnitin, LLC, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. Founded in 1998, it sells its licenses to universities and high schools who then use the software as a service (SaaS) website to check submitted documents against its database and the ...
Turnitin: iParadigms 1997 proprietary: SaaS: Latin & multiple scripts through translation [11] Automatically stores uploaded texts (submitted for checking) in its own database. [12] Unicheck: Unicheck 2014 SaaS proprietary: SaaS: Latin, Cyrillic Pricing "per page" based on 137.5 words per nominal page. [13]
As some may know, TurnItIn appears to be written with Windows users in mind and is hosted from Windows-based servers. Every time I submit an assignment to TurnItIn, it is marked as "unknown." POSIX-compatible operating systems do not encode files specifically as binary or text (a truly unnecessary feature, in my assessment), as Windows does.
In this case, the copy of Windows installed does not use the product key listed on the certificate of authenticity, but rather a master product key issued to OEMs called a System Locked Pre-installation (SLP) key. On each boot, Windows confirms the presence of specific information stored in the BIOS by the manufacturer, ensuring the activation ...