Old Red Cracker

{{Short description|Anonymous reverser}}

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Old Red Cracker (abbreviated +ORC) is an anonymous reverser. He was one of the pioneers of publishing cracking lessons on the Internet. While his identity is unknown,{{Cite web |url=https://www.neperos.com/article/pvpb3kd8df9dd369 |title=Study of +ORC identity on www.neperos.com |date=4 August 2019 |access-date=2023-05-05 |archive-date=2023-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207040026/https://www.neperos.com/article/pvpb3kd8df9dd369 |url-status=live }} reverse engineer Fravia had email correspondence with him and spread his tutorials.[http://groups.google.de/group/de.org.ccc/tree/browse_frm/month/1996-04/85a988bcd936a757?hide_quotes=no#msg_279597bb53306c1d Fravia post on de.org.ccc]

Old Red Cracker founded the so-called "High Cracking University" (+HCU), to conduct research into Reverse Code Engineering (RCE). The addition of the "+" sign in front of the nickname of a reverser signified membership in the +HCU. +HCU published a new reverse engineering problem annually.{{cite book|author1=Cyrus Peikari|author2=Anton Chuvakin|author2-link=Anton Chuvakin|title=Security Warrior|url=https://archive.org/details/securitywarrior0000peik|url-access=registration|date=12 January 2004|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc."|isbn=978-0-596-55239-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/securitywarrior0000peik/page/31 31]}}