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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.micro.pc,net.micro.hp
Subject: Re: software protection
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:02:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:02:33 1985
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>>  What you get with the package is a small plastic
>> gizmo that plugs into the HP-IB connector on your 150.  
>
>There's a generic name for the gizmo that "key" you plug into the
>micro that the software checks for, but I've forgotten what it is,
>can anyone help.

The "Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin" calls them "dongles".  I don't
know if this word is used in the US of A as well as in Britain (where the
CF&S B is edited).  The magazine is the only place I've seen it.
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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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