On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 00:04 +1200, Jinx wrote:
> a little more ;-), could Dwayne be certain that his product would
> actually fall into the hands of a hardware hacker anyway ? Guess
> it has to fall into the hands of just one .....

Every time I've seen a dongle bypassed it had nothing to do with the
hardware, the hack was accomplished by bypassing or replacing the
"dongle check" in the software, no hardware hacker needed.

If instead you contain some of the "functionality" in the dongle, then
it's likely some hardware "hacking" will be required, but even then a
man in the middle attack in the software layer may be enough to crack
the scheme (depending on how you do things).

Finally, let me add, that very often people crack these things NOT to
pirate, they crack them for the challenge, and just release the result
for fun.

TTYL

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