[AccessD] Mac address

LOL.  I learned a long time ago not to sweat the small stuff.  If there are
hackers figuring out how to hack Microsoft's $100 million copy protection, I
am not going to survive a determined attempt to get around my stuff.

On the other hand, I assume you lock your front door.  And I assume there is
glass in the door that anyone who wants in could just smash to reach in and
unlock your door.  So why do you bother?  Because the lock keeps 99% of the
people out of your house.

99% is good enough for me.  I will not even bat an eyelash nor give a second
thought to the other 1%.

99% of the effort COULD be spent stopping (or failing to stop) that last 1%.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:00 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Mac address


Take a look at http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/
for a way to defeat this copy protection scheme.

(Follow the link to "the research of Kyle Lai" for a lot of good info
on MAC addresses)


On 3 Jan 2004 at 13:34, John W. Colby wrote:

> Yea, but you have to start somewhere.  More and more NICs are embedded
right
> in the motherboards so this is getting less and less likely.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:53 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Mac address
>
>
> Hi John
>
> Hmm ... so the user changes his/hers NIC and is hosed ..?
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > Date: 2004-01-03 18:14
>
> > Well... I'm looking at a machine specific piece for copy protection.
The
> > work station name might be specific to a network, but is created by the
> > software (or user doing the install) so if the machine went down (as
many
> of
> > mine have over the last few years) if the user didn't select the same
name
> > then the key wouldn't work.
>

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