[OT] The Cracker's Guide To Python

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

Dear all,

yesterday afternoon I happened to be in the company of youngsters, and I
overheard them talking about the whereabouts of the crack of the latest
version of some famous video editing software... instead of preaching
about legalities at first etc, I asked:

"What exactly do you need this software for?"

"I have two avi files and I want to join them..."

"Why don't you download VirtualDub and do your job then?  Google for it,
it's open source and you can download it freely."

"So I don't need a crack for it?"

... (!)

I'm skipping the rest of the conversation, but the idea of lots of
youngsters around the world, brilliant and talented perhaps, that waste
their time in illegal activities instead of investing it into open
source software struck me as very depressing.

So jokingly, how do we advertise python in that "underground" world?
Easy: let's provide a crack for every version of python for windows! :)
It doesn't matter what it does, perhaps only change the copyright
message into "H4x0r3d by Guid0 T34m" by changing directly the
pythonxx.dll.  The only problem would be that if the crack is written in
Python, it won't be able to open the dll as read-write...

It's a crazy world...
-- 
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Ils sont fous ces Redmontains! --Harddix