Reverse Engineer

EMPRESS, C000005

Biography: 

EMPRESS is a controversial figure in the digital piracy scene, known for being one of the last remaining major game crackers. She gained notoriety for her ability to crack Denuvo DRM, one of the most sophisticated anti-piracy systems in the gaming industry. EMPRESS operates independently and has been responsible for cracking numerous high-profile games, often releasing them with detailed notes about the cracking process. As of 2023, EMPRESS remains active in the cracking scene, though her activities have become more sporadic. She continues to be one of the few individuals capable of cracking Denuvo-protected games, though her releases have become less frequent. While the true identity of Empress is unknown, she refers to herself as a young Russian woman.

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Sebastian Porst

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Sebastian Porst
Biography: 

Sebastian Porst is a known binary file reverse engineer who is also the lead developer of the reverse engineering IDE BinNavi, the collaborative RE information sharing tool BinCrowd, and the malware PDF analysis tool PDF Inspector.

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Tim Strazzere

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Timothy Strazzere
Biography: 

Tim Strazzere is an Android geek and reverse engineer who lives in San francisco, Ca and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He works at Lookout Mobile Security and reverses Android malware and other things for a living. He is the author of APKfuscator, a generic DEX file obfuscator and munger. He also presented this tool at Blackhat 2012 for the talk; "Dex Education: Practicing Safe Dex".

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