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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
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Subject: dongle mixup
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 23:06:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 23:06:28 1985
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> The 'dongle' approach is nice for another reason - if you have two
> systems (identical) you can take the dongle with you (i.e. work-home).
> 
Yeah.  Someday, you and a buddy who works at your company, which may have
several copies of some dongle protected software, will likely have a problem.
In order to make a deadline for work for a meeting the following day, you
both take home a disk and a dongle.  You'll be several miles up the Cache
La Poudre before you discover that you wrangled the wrong dang dongle!
								     Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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