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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles)
Message-ID: <415@stech.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 12:20:21 GMT
References: <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) says:
> 
> ->Several wierd and wonderful methods of copy protection(such as serial numbers,
> ->dongles, and sentinel-viruses) and counterattacks (such as frying a pirate's
> ->hard disk) have been proposed.  
> 
> What are "dongles"?
> 

At least on the Amiga, a dongle is a piece of hardware about 1/2 X 1 X 1 1/2
inches which plugs into either game port.  Software which uses a dongle for
copy protection won't run unless it's physically plugged in.  The bad thing
about this idea is that dongles make great cat toys ...


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop

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