Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!mot!al From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.micro.pc,net.micro.hp Subject: Re: software protection Message-ID: <174@mot.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:02:33 EDT Article-I.D.: mot.174 Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:02:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:28:05 EDT References: <52@duvel.UUCP> <275@zaphod.UUCP>, <11330@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.wanted:6652 net.micro.pc:4402 net.micro.hp:107 >> 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. -------------------------------- Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A {seismo|ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!mot!al allegra!sftig!mot!al ucbvax!arizona!asuvax!mot!al -------------------------------- We're so sorry, uncle Albert, but we haven't done a bloody thing all day.