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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by u1hcw9nx on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:37AM (#46853782)
You can turn normal USB flash drive into simple dongle if it has readable serial numbers with device id. Easy to bypass but most people don't.

Actual dongles with encryption and processor cost only $15 in batches of 100.

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Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle by cricalix on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:19AM (#46854376)
UnRaid does a variant of this; license is tied to the serial of the USB drive. It barely writes to the drive, so wear isn't meant to be much of an issue.
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