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- On Tue, 21 Feb 1995 pageone@netcom.com wrote:
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- > I like the idea of having register codes, but I'm worried that if
- > just ONE gets out to alt.2600 or IRC, the entire scheme might come back
- > to haunt ARDI... I'm worried about piracy.
- > Thinking about it, could it be possible to implement some sort of
- > a coding scheme which could take something like a credit card number
- > (provided by the user), and a serial number which would ONLY work with
- > that card # (provided by ARDI). This would make it highly undesirable
- > for someone to post a code, given that they're also posting a code which
- > could very possibly be used against them. However, they could cancel the
- > card right before they post... :(
- > Basically, I know it's tough, but transmog files are better
- > anti-piracy weapons... (then again, someone could uuencode executor and
- > post it... aargh, but that applies to anything nowadays. I even saw what
- > someone claimed to be a Windows 95 beta in the /usr/hack/tmp directories
- > here on Netcom... I didn't try it - I'm on MSDN 2 anyway, so I'll get it
- > legally in March :)
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- Perhaps something akin to TIA's .tiarc authentication scheme. Seems to be
- a MD5 hash of pertainant information. The difficult part is uniquely
- identifying a machine - and I'm against using a machine's primary
- interface IP number (my poor Linux box is forever changing IPs).
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- Anyway, take a look at TIA's scheme: http://marketplace.com/
- Personnally, I prefer TERM as TIA's SLIP seems a tad chunky.
-
- - Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
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