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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: software piracy and coupons - (nf)
Message-ID: <515@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 08:18:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 08:18:20 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Nov-83 00:02:31 EST
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Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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Sorry, but I disagree that even serial numbers buried in ROM
are adequate for the serious pirate.  I have access to a
prom programmer here in the lab, and I can just take two
machines' ROMs compare them and then make up dups for all my
friends.  If I'm a good enough circuit designer I could
build a device which fits under the the ROM and provides
a dial selector to be any machine I want to be.

There is a truism here:


	"Anything I can physically get my hands on
	for long enough, I can crack."


And you can quote me on that.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					AT&T Information Systems
					Laboratories, Holmdel
					(201) 834-3759
					ariel!jlw