Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:45:28 -0700 From: "D. Goss" <lists@dylangoss.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hidden spot on hard drives? Message-ID: <7D9C6C6A-6C3F-4A62-95BA-AB0FA1DB7C90@dylangoss.com> In-Reply-To: <200510052204.36883.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20051005184437.GA36369@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200510052204.36883.kirk@strauser.com>
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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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