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Audience matters. Something intended to stop legitimate business consumers in a non tech industry requires substantially less sophistication than something buil
by 15155 9mo ago
Audience matters. Something intended to stop legitimate business consumers in a non tech industry requires substantially less sophistication than something built to withstand professional reverse engineers.
- dwattttt 9mo agoLocks are there to keep honest people honest. To expand on the saying, they're not there to be insurmountable. Just to be hard enough to make it easier to do things the right way.
- nkrisc 9mo agoAnd often they’re there so no one can plausibly say they didn’t know what they were doing or stumbled into it accidentally. You can’t “accidentally” go through a door with a padlock on it. I’d guess it’s something similar with this dongle. You can’t “accidentally” run the software without the dongle.
- classichasclass 9mo agoCopy protection was also generally less robust for educational software, since it sold to generally law-abiding folks (parents, educators, etc.). Never saw Rapidlok or V-MAX! used for educational software on the Commodore 64, for example.
- Gigachad 9mo agoThese days there would be an Aliexpress listing selling fake dongles within a month making it easy for the business customers too.