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Article #710003Re: Sad PC Gamers seeing Developers as "competition"
From: Loren Pechtel
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:52
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:52
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:57:55 -0000, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote: >BTW, such systems aren't feasible nowadays. It's far too easy to simply >dump the data from the dongle, and clone your own. Oh, wait, you want to >use a proprietary port or something? Haha! Good luck with that! I've written code for dongles in the past. (Vertical market with a per copy price in the thousands.) There are dongles out there that can't simply be dumped. You would have to record the traffic in both directions to have any hope of figuring it out. It's been long enough I don't recall all the details. >And what of the legitimate users who lose their key and the original >company is no longer around so they can't even get a replacement? Yes, this is the problem with dongles.
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