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From: gabriel@bob.berkeley.edu (Gabriel/Capsim (sam))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Key disk protection systems?
Summary: key disks?
Keywords: key disk, protection
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Date: 14 Oct 90 00:19:33 GMT
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Does anybody out there know how to remove key disk protections from programs?
Having to keep the damn floppy around and in a convenient place is getting
to be very annoying (especially for someone whose desk is as messy as mine).

I've tried hacking on several using MacsBugs and a disassembler with no
success.  Breaking out into MacsBugs (I tried a brk InitFonts) invariably
causes the program to crash when I do a cont, and there is usually some strange
code that a disasm can't handle (self-modifying code in the protection
scheme?)  Short of tracing the original machine code, is there any simple way
of doing this?

Any advice will be most appreciated.  Thanks in advance!