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To: steve harris who wrote (71166)	9/6/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	of 1576013

Steve, OT I suspect the patch for this new method will not be easy to come by. From what I hear you call the software company online and they interrogate your system for the number and then generate the key that will run the system with that CPU. If you take the hard drive to another system to boot it will detect the new number on the cpu and then the key fails. Academically any system can be broken and most software at $50 would never have a $25 dongle attached. By the way, they are some dongles that have not been defeated and some that are easy to defeat. This method allows all systems to have a built in dongle that is very hard to crack. They will allow the few crackers to defeat it. Remember they can now make press runs of 500 stamped Cds for about 50 cents more each than a run of 100,000. Each batch of 500 can be uniquely keyed to make a brute force solution good for 500 Cds only. Once the batch is scattered in retail they will need 10,000 different ctackz to defeat every different CD of a 500,000 sales run. No impossible to crack, harder, it will shift the balance back towards the authors side. Right now at local flea markets you can buy 'all-in-one' CDs of about 100 different kinds, each with 600 megs of games or whatever on them. They would never sell in a retail store and they keep them under the table at the fleamarkets too. They sell for $10-15. The autocad one has the latest autocad and dozens of related programs on it. Same as they do in eastern europe or Hong Kong. From time to time they have a bulldozer party and they catch some people. Most recent scam was fake Windows98, done so well that even a close look could not see the fakery. Even the metal strip and the holographic image had been copied. They suspect the printer of the real ones made an extra batch or two. They were all over Toronto and Canada and MSFT caught them via registration number when buyers registered online. They then sent undercover agents to buy copies from stores and then they raided the stores and found they had bought innocently. They then went upstream and found the wholesaler, he had also bought innocently and they went after the offshore supplier and found him in Europe. He was the faker and he was selling a hair under the normale price and telling people it was real goods. Nice profit, may it for $3 and sell for $50. He had sold 500,000 or more. So I agree with the philosophy that Intel is implementing to allow better copy protection of software. Bill

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