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Article #23498Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles)
From: Jan Harrington
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1988 12:20
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1988 12:20
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in article <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) says: > > ->Several wierd and wonderful methods of copy protection(such as serial numbers, > ->dongles, and sentinel-viruses) and counterattacks (such as frying a pirate's > ->hard disk) have been proposed. > > What are "dongles"? > At least on the Amiga, a dongle is a piece of hardware about 1/2 X 1 X 1 1/2 inches which plugs into either game port. Software which uses a dongle for copy protection won't run unless it's physically plugged in. The bad thing about this idea is that dongles make great cat toys ... Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles) Message-ID: <415@stech.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 88 12:20:21 GMT References: <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 25