alt Hacker NewsAudience matters. Something intended to stop legitimate business consumers in a non tech industry requires substantially less sophistication than something built to withstand professional reverse engineers.
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classichasclass • yesterday at 11:16 PM
Copy protection was also generally less robust for educational software, since it sold to generally law-abiding folks (parents, educators, etc.). Never saw Rapidlok or V-MAX! used for educational software on the Commodore 64, for example.
Gigachad • today at 4:00 AM
These days there would be an Aliexpress listing selling fake dongles within a month making it easy for the business customers too.
Locks are there to keep honest people honest.
To expand on the saying, they're not there to be insurmountable. Just to be hard enough to make it easier to do things the right way.