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Phil wrote:
>
> I hope Omega does not do that with their software. I know someone who
> bought some software like that, and it would run on only one computer and
> guess what, he had computer trouble, upgraded and bought a new faster
> computer and his software would not run without a new password! So he tried
> to get in touch with the spftware company and guess what? They are out of
> bussiness and he can't use his software any more! I would think long and
> hard before I bought software that used the users computer to generate a
> password so it wpould work on only one computer! I know people who upgrade
> computer every year or two and software like that would be useless to them!
> Does anyone know if there is a way to use software like this if say a
> company has gone out of bussiness? How can one some how generate a password
> own his own? Any ideas? Omega I hate the Doggle, but it is better that
> what I described above, so don't do it!!
>
> At 10:58 AM 1/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >I've had software (Elliott Wave Analyzer) which is locked to the drive. I
> >needed a new password when a) disk drive crashed and I swapped in a new
> >drive, b) when I changed file system from FAT to NTFS, and c) when I
> >repartitioned drive. I provided the developer with some code used in his
> >system so we had a relationship of some trust. In each case, the software
> >would (at my request) gather the new drive config info and email it to the
> >developer who provided a new password during regular business hours. I
> >suspect that an organization which is more hard-nosed about security would
> >be more difficult to deal with. Also, I have to wonder if the new Diskkeeper
> >3.0 NT defragger which can completely reorg an NT drive during pre-boot
> >might break such a scheme.
> >
> >Earl
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MarkBrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <MarkBrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 2:03 PM
> >Subject: Re: E*TRADE and Omega Research Marketing Alliance
> >
> >
> >>expire on me some monday morning when I got a load of trades on. Omega told
> >me they were
> >>doing away with the security block for the printer port, but would have new
> >security that would
> >>assure them complete security. I can already tell you I bet they are going
> >to lock the software
> >>to the hard drive some how. This would mean if you change hard drives your
> >out of luck, ect.
> >>I hope I'm wrong but I got this feeling after talking to Mitch, it is a
> >wickedly thorough method,
> >>whatever it is.
> >
> >
> >
Everyone may hate the Dongle but I can assure you that a hardware
dependent lock is a lot worse.. I have a product that generates a lock
code...You can't add memory or change hard disks without screwing up the
lock..
Forget it!
Robert
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality...Albert Einstein
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