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In article <4jbpkj$eo5@clark.net>, Marcus J. Ranum <mjr@clark.net> wrote:
>Larry Motylinski <larry@pronet.mpro.net> wrote:
>	And if the system is a hospital's database, or something
>mission critical and life-threatening, and they change their
>hardware, you'll get a call from their lawyers if it was your
>stupid copy protect that caused downtime. Think carefully before
>you do something that will put your customers out of business
>as a means of protecting your software against them!

As a systems administrator for company with a lot of software which 
is node locked (or where the licence servers are node locked), having 
software and/or techniques for keeping mission critical software 
running temporarily in the event of a hardware change is an essential 
part of a disaster recovery plan. 

I probably don't need to say it, but many vendors take two or three 
business days to issue new keys (forms need to be filled out and 
faxed to the vendor).  The thought of having to do this in a rush for 
two dozen applications, and having MY customers wait to be able to 
use the applications they need until all of these companies send me 
new keys, is just frightening. Of course, servers can fail on weekends
or during the night, when the licence key issuing folks are unavailable.

If you have Sun workstations and servers, you can use my software for
short term hostid spoofing, as part of a disaster recovery plan.

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/henderso/change-sun-hostid.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/change-sun-hostid.tar.gz
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-stuff/change-sun-hostid.tar.gz

Please don't use change-sun-hostid to steal software. But DO use it 
to keep your critical applications up and running in the event of 
server failure, while you contact vendors for new licence keys. 

-- 
Mark Henderson -- markh@wimsey.bc.ca, henderso@netcom.com (personal accounts)
ViaCrypt PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1  A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/ - change-sun-hostid, unstrip for Solaris, 
 computer security, TECO, FGMP, Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ, Wimsey crypto archive