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A video game piracy group by the name of CODEX claims it has successfully breached the 5 layers of protection that come with games published on the Microsoft Store on Windows 10.
The group lists these five layers of protection as follows: 'MSStore, UWP, EAppX, XBLive, and Arxan.' Like the more famous Denuvo - which has, of course, become a prime example of the persistence and ingenuity of pirates in getting around anti-piracy measures - Arxan serves as an anti-tamper system.
One of the crackers, Vorxi, makes no attempt to hide his disdain for Arxan, saying, 'It's the equivalent of Denuvo (without the DRM License part). Sims 4 stuff. It's [sic] still bloats the executable with useless virtual machines that only slow down your game.'
The game they're using as the basis for their assertions is Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection. While the title itself may not be the most exciting of games, what's far more important here is the group's claims that they have bypassed all five layers of DRM protection for the UWP platform, and that they could reproduce their success with other, more popular AAA titles.
The release notes by the hacking group state:
'This is the first scene release of a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) game. Therefore we would like to point out that it will of course only work on Windows 10. This particular game requires Windows 10 version 1607 or newer.
Of course, it remains to be seen if the cracking of Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection will serve as a one-off event resulting from some particular flaw in its release or if it's only a test-case for similar exploits of big-name AAA titles to come. If the group's claims are to be believed and the latter is true, it may spell disaster for Microsoft's plans for attracting more developers to publish their apps on its Store.
Source: TorrentFreak via MSPoweruser
Minecraft No Drop Mod
I recently got a new computer that my son wanted to play Minecraft on. Minecraft requires the Java runtime to be installed but with it's memory, security and updating issues Java was one headache I didn't want to have on this new machine. Lucky for me Mojang recently created a new version of their Minecraft launcher that includes it's own version of Java. This version is isolated in the Minecraft installation directory and does not require installing Java on it's own.
But then my son asked me about mods. He's always used Forge for mods but when I tried installing Forge I got an error sayin that Java must be installed to run the Forge installer. So now I was back to my original Java problem: how do I install something that requires Java without installing the Java runtime?
The answer turned out to be quite simple: leverage the version of Java that was installed with Minecraft. Here's how to do it in Windows 10. I'm sure Mac OSX is similar. Epic games fortnite launcher. Remember that before running a Forge installer fo any version of Minecraft you must first run that version of Minecraft on your machine.
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- Go to the Forge website (https://files.minecraftforge.net/) and download the .jar file for the version of Forge you want to install. This will be the version indicated by the word 'Installer'. DO NOT download the 'Installer-win' version. Save the file to the following directory:
C:Program Files (x86)Minecraftruntimejre-x641.8.0_25bin
Note that your directory structure may be slightly different depending on which version of Java was included with the Minecraft installer you used. The main idea here is that the .jar file should be in the bin subdirectory of the Java install within your Mincraft installation (located in the runtime subdirectory of the install directory). - Open up a command prompt (cmd) and go to the directory you just saved the .jar file to. Using the example above this command would be as follows:
cd Program Files (x86)Minecraftruntimejre-x641.8.0_25bin - Use the version of Java in this directory to run the Forge installer in the .jar file. To do this type the following:
java -jar forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1614-1.7.10-installer.jar
Substitute the name of your .jar file in place of the one in this command.
This will run the Forge installer. The rest of the details of how to complete the Forge install are well documented in other places so I won't repeat them here.
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