• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      it does if you make it work in those conditions.

      software that “phones home” is easy to fool.

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          4 days ago

          typically the phone home is looking for a response to unlock.

          use a packet sniffer to see what the request/response is and replicate it with a proxy or response server.

          this is also know as a man-in-the-middle (mitm).

          takes skill and knowledge to do, but once you do a few dozen it’s pretty easy since most software “phone homes” are looking for static non-encrypted responses.