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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Using the serial # in ROM as a copy protection mechanism...?
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- Message-ID: <dillon.0t3w@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <1992Dec17.230932.16643@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Dec19.122423.632@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:04:10 PST
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- In article <1992Dec19.122423.632@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> harit@kripalu.com writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.230932.16643@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- >
- >alone machines copying the software: as an administrator I would prefer some
- >kind of plug in key off the serial port to being tied to a motherboard serial
- >number.
- >
- >That is my two cents.
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- AARRRGRG!! :-) No serial or parallel port dongles! They are a mess...
- a huge mess. I have to deal with them on our IBM's and, frankly, it is
- WORSE then machine-id keys.
-
- -Matt
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