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From: minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Idea for painless copy protection
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.093114.28655@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 09:31:14 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
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|>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

by awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels):
|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.

  We should note that Macs remember their node numbers in PRAM and use
them as a first guess when they boot. So, assuming node number collisions
aren't common, most node numbers are constant. This should be the case
for for any reasonable LocalTalk network since the number of realisticly
useable nodes is small compared to the available numbers. What about other
media?
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|_    /| | Robert Minich            |
|\'o.O'  | Oklahoma State University| "I'm not discouraging others from using
|=(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu  |  their power of the pen, but mine will
|   U    | - "Ackphtth"             |  continue to do the crossword."  M. Ho