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thenthenthen
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
As a hardware guy I would first start with opening up the dongle, but hey! Still very curious to see whats inside!
medwards666
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I always thought the internals were encased in potting compound for these things to prevent exactly this scenario (certainly the ones I had for LightWave back in the day were)...
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alibarber
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Yes my first thought would be to probe the parallel lines and see what went in and came out, but this approach was just as interesting!
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