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From: jkm@security.UUCP (Jonathan K.Millen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: copy protection
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 08:39:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 08:39:30 1985
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Keywords: Copy protection and lab use

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     From the various objections I've seen to copy protection based on
freezing copyable software on a ROM serial number, it appears that the
REALLY ideal scheme should identify the purchaser rather than the
machine.  The software should freeze on the buyer's fingerprint, or
some other personal characteristic which (unlike a password) can't be
given away.  I wish I could think of a way to do that.

Jon Millen

"We should stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us,
not on one another's toes." -a Peter Neumann paraphrase