Hidden spot on hard drives?
D. Goss
lists at dylangoss.com
Wed Oct 5 22:45:38 PDT 2005
I wanted to say what Kirk has said well. As a customer, if a company
is going to overbearingly copy-protect software i'll look for an
alternative. I understand a license number and maybe a key
generator, even a dial-in check to some home server. Dongles stink
but I have used software with them. This all works somewhat well and
is proven. You can always get around anything and I certainly would
think more than twice about any software that started messing with my
hard drive(s) at a very low level like this. Bad bad bad.
d.
On Oct 5, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>
>> the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy
>> protection
>> product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user
>> cannot
>> touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost
>> will not find
>> it.
>>
>
> 1) No such animal.
> 2) Ah - the bootblock, as others have mentioned.
> 3) Of course, that doesn't say anything about Ghost v$(current + 1).
>
> To be blunt, your vendor is lying to you. At best, they can make
> copying less
> convenient than otherwise, but can't stop a dedicated cracker.
> Why, then,
> would you want to make life more difficult for your paying
> customers while
> barely slowing those capable of doing you the most harm?
>
> One thing I learned while growing up through the C=64 and Amiga
> days is that
> copy protection never, ever, EVER works. Ever. Under no
> circumstances. It
> only makes your legitimate users (deservedly) hate you. Are you
> sure that's
> what your company really wants?
> --
> Kirk Strauser
>
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