history

When I took over CORE in June 1997 it was a terrible mess. The group was founded in early 1997 by 4 persons. An official courier group called "perplex" couriered the CORE releases to scene sites without any dupechecks or coordination. When I joined CORE on 06/22/1997 my first act as new Leader was to kick 60% of the members out of CORE. I disbanded the Council and my word became law for CORE's members. After my position as leader was established I build up a complex release system with a lot of rules during the first months. Later on one of our great script coders translated my ideas into a perfect running automatic robot release-system which is very famous in the so called "Warez" scene.

The secret of CORE's glory is the hard work and hunger for knowledge of our core/original crackers. They will always have a place in our hearts and memories since they build CORE up with me from nothing. Without them CORE would have never reached the top of the cracking scene. Most of them quit the scene for good but they will be always remembered in the scene's hall of fame.

CORE has become the most successful and respected cracking group ever. We broke even UCF's untouched glory after a lot of hard work. I love to say that CORE produced over 4000+ quality keymakers for software protections. CORE features an automatic release system that dupechecks, packages and couriers its releases to CORE's scene HQs. We offer since over 1 year our work to the public via WWW and Hambo's Keygen studio gets over 10.000+ hits per day.

A lot of crackers joined CORE and their fame will always shine, even if some of them had to return to real-life. CORE accepts only the finest crackers and features strict crack-quality rules. No other group in the scene released so many keymakers for so called "uncrackable" programs like CORE!

CORE does support its crackers a lot. The crackers have to care about nothing except the process of cracking. They can fully concentrate on cracking. If they get stuck while cracking, old-school members can help them often out easily. CORE has become a big friendly cracking family and I'm proud to tell you that my old dream of forming the perfect cracking machine has become true! A lot of groups ripped our work, a lot of groups tried to copy our style of releasing - but - they never reached the "CORE" quality!

Also CORE opened in the last 2 years several sub-divisions like COREUTiL and COREPDA. While COREUTiL frustrated some old school util groups by beating them in some major releases, COREPDA dominates the PDA cracking scene with quality cracks for 3COM's Palmpilot. CORE reached in all sections of the scene all it ever wanted to reach.

I hope CORE will keep up its good work for a long time. New respected crackers will join our force for sure! We shout out a big "thank you" to all our hardcore fans that supported us all the time!

signed,
The CORE Leader