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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: copy protection
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 20:36:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 20:36:22 1985
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In article <223@tolerant.UUCP> berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry) writes:
>
>I got it!  Put little radio transmitters in every disk that continuously
>broadcast what program is being run from them :-).
>-- 
>
>	David W. Berry

Don't laugh!  There was a rumor in net.video or similar place
a couple of months ago about certain unscrupulous agencies (FCC, FBI,
or maybe Nielsen?) driving panel trucks around with sensitive instrumentation
designed to pick up signals from the I.F. amps in your T.V. tuners, in order
to determine what channels people are watching (they'd all get channel 3
(L.A.) if you ask me).  Maybe this technique could be adapted to look for
the electronic 'fingerprint' of what program is running in your computer.
Might be a way to determine if an inordinate amount of illegal copies of
Lotus or something are running in a building somewhere.  (ADAPSO are you
listening?)

Keith Doyle
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Reminds me of the old days when the first program that I got running on my
first personal computer (IMSAI) before I had any peripherals, was a
program to play 'Daisy' thru an A.M. radio, that was keyed in through the
front panel switches.