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The basic idea has been around since the 80s, although not to the extent you describe it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle https://en.wi
by robin_reala 5y ago
The basic idea has been around since the 80s, although not to the extent you describe it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle
- stevekemp 5y agoVery much so. I remember patching binaries to remove dongle-checks back in the MS-DOS days, in those days the dongles were plugged into the parallel port. I guess these days you could have a USB-device that did useful calculations, so without it software would give the wrong/broken results. But I've not come across anything like that in recent times.