But it requires way more skill if your tea is hot enough.
No, what I meant is that unpackers don't teach you anything.. They're there to speed up the process once you've mastered a protection and it gets boring... ( Note I said 'can't' not can in my first statement. Most likely you interpreted it as 'can'.. ) Just using some unpacker defeats the imho the purpose of reversing.. It's the challenge of defeating a protection for the first time that's fun, not using a a program and click some buttons,
It's only a pitty that not everybody is here for the challenge. Only the result "whoaah I crackzorred it using unpacker x"..
(Though depending on your goal that isn't necessarily a bad thing, I mean there are pure keygenners around. That just hate unpacking..
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