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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by opinologo on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:02PM (#46850289)
Iremember doing exactly this kind of hack for a small telco in Bueno Aires. Extel. Around the year 2000.

In most cases it was not much more difficult than what OP described.

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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by iamflimflam1 on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:32PM (#46850526)
I worked on some software that was used by telcos around that time - you were probably hacking our dongles :)
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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by iamflimflam1 on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:19AM (#46853992)
Even more amazingly - that software I worked in is still being used and sold. Probably still has some of my ropey old code on it…
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