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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
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Date: 29 Jan 91 02:01:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.202316@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:

>Actually that is very very easy. Get yourself a traffic watch program
>and you can see the peoples names, the nodes number, the serial number of
>the programm using that copy protection mode and so on. Then simply look
>for the node where your program runs, rememeber the node number and
>search for some entry telling you the name or position (whatever name you
>give in the chooser). Then all you have to do is to place a lot of flames

Just a small problem with this.  For one thing, most AppleTalk nets aren't 
set up with fixed node numbers.  They get dynamically allocated when the node
registers itself.  For another, we have people changing their chooser names
all the time.  Both of these can be fixed, of course.