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From: forbus@uiucdcsp.Uiuc.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: software protection - dongles
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Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 22:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  6 22:43:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.Uiuc.ARPA!forbus    Jul  6 21:43:00 1985


"Dongles" are a truely silly idea.  They have the same bug the "key disk"
idea has -- what if your "dongle" gets trashed?  Same scenario:  9 PM friday
evening, report which must be finished by Monday morning, dog chews dongle
to pieces.  Or if a kid thinks of the dongle as pretty thing to play with
and loses it...I cannot imagine rational people buying software that
requires such crud.