If you’ve ever cracked software either for fun or profit you may notice some developers aren’t too good with the ‘engrish’. A lot of software companies outsource their software to foreign companies and developers who….aren’t too good at copy protection or pronunciation as you can see.

 

This is an older screen shot. i was amazed I could get olly to run on windows 7, much less do anything with it. Gone are the days of olly as immunity debugger as taken its place. I don’t need to emulate a 32 bit environment to run immunity, it works on 64 bit windows which is awesome.

 

Back to what I was saying though, if you ship your software overseas, what guarantees do you have that the code you get back won’t be full of holes? They have QA people there, but their standards are different from ours. They pay dirt wages to get their software shipped as soon as possible. I use the term ‘they’ in the literal sense alluring mainly to India, the Philippines, and places of that sort. Windows XP is still the majority OS in China and India, so its safe to assume software is going to be best written for XP. This is a problem because advancements have been made in newer operating systems to make better use of copy protection.

 

One thing I notice is that I rarely encrypted code sent overseas unless its a piece of malware. I think it has something to do with our international encryption laws, but don’t quote me on that. In the future, I think most software will be pumped out by some 3rd world country in large factories paying ‘developers’ 30 cents an hour to pump out code. Kind of like Nike and Mexico. The end result will be shitty code. More than you can handle. I’ve had Nike shoes fall apart on me the first day, and if my prediction comes true, the same will be said for our software.