Re: What is a "dongle"?

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From: Ron Dippold
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:26

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Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>In the current thread on copy-protection, the term "dongle" appeared.
>What is a dongle?  I've never before read it or heard of it.

A little device that hangs off one of the ports on your computer,
usually the parallel (printer) port for most PC stuff.  It passes
through regular data to the printer, so you can still use your
printer. 

Given the condition of the backs of most PCs, they often qualify as a
monumental pain in the ass.  Luckily, removing dongle copy protection
is usually less complex than removing a good complicated encryption /
interpreter loader copy protection.  But it gives software companies
warm fuzzies.
-- 
Religions dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight
and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on
which they live. -- Thomas Jefferson

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