Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
by yesturi on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:35AM
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It is interesting that the vendor adapts the hardware token and then makes it weak on the software side.
I recently did similar thing for the FineReader 6 using a hardware dongle [0]. It was surprisingly easy, no disassembly at all, just injecting srand(0) and a hardcoding the responses from the dongle. I had no prior reverse-engineering experience at all.
I recently did similar thing for the FineReader 6 using a hardware dongle [0]. It was surprisingly easy, no disassembly at all, just injecting srand(0) and a hardcoding the responses from the dongle. I had no prior reverse-engineering experience at all.
[0] https://slomkowski.eu/abbyy-finereader-6-ikey-1000-hack/