A software protection dongle (commonly known as a dongle or key) is an electronic copy protection and content protection device. When connected to a computer...

with software protection dongles—a form of hardware digital rights management in which a piece of software will only operate if a specified dongle—which...

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. Copy protection can be removed by applying...

of software, films, music, and other media. Copy protection is most commonly found on videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, HD-DVDs, computer software discs...

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Anti-tamper software Closed platform Digital asset management License manager ODRL Right to repair Software metering Software protection dongle Secure Digital...

firstly with CopyControl (a software-based copy protection system), then Dinkey Dongle (small hardware copy protection keys that connect to parallel...

built. That process is commonly used for "cracking" software and media to remove their copy protection,: 7  or to create a possibly-improved copy or even...

rights management Enshittification Gated community Open source Software protection dongle Registered user Memetic, Daniel. "Escaping the Walled Gardens...

toner cartridges. Regional lockout CIC (Nintendo) Vendor lock-in Software protection dongle Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components, a U.S. Sixth Circuit...

customization or enhancements. A hardware-based protection key, or dongle, is best suited to software publishers concerned about the security of their...

Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if...

some kind of software, dongle or password access device installed in instances of the work, any attempt to bypass such a copy protection scheme may be...

notable copy protection schemes for various medias. Dongle Hardware key containing electronic serial number required to run the software; relatively expensive...

established with proceeds from Steve Chang's previous sale of a copy protection dongle to a United States–based Rainbow Technologies. Shortly after establishing...

device. The system and application software is prepared on the external hard disk drive, and with the use of a dongle available only to developers, is tested...

away users' freedoms. That includes software license agreements, non-disclosure agreements, activation keys, dongles, copy restriction, proprietary formats...

security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer software, systems and networks from threats that can lead to unauthorized...

authentication, something the user 'has' is also used (e.g., a security token or 'dongle', an ATM card, or a mobile phone); and with three-factor authentication...

medical instrumentation. Even uninterruptible power supplies and software protection dongles declare themselves under this class, despite the fact they often...

graphics tablets and similar devices. Special-purpose uses included software protection dongles and even the TelePort modem. The first Macintosh to move on from...

correctly as the E-MU hardware also acts as a software copy protection dongle for the protected software. Not having all of these things in order often...

technology created by Steve Wozniak to connect keyboards, mice and software protection dongles such as those from Avid Technology. Two USB ports were also included...

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and the correct PIN is entered (see two-factor authentication). However, dongles can be used by anyone who can gain physical access to it. Newer technologies...

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Xbox. Paradox has been noted to crack challenging dongle protections on many debugging and software development programs. The team also successfully found...

restrictions in software, and attempts to make circumvention of these restrictions more difficult. Digital rights management Dongle Secure cryptoprocessor...

commercially-available USB dongle, which has been criticized as a form of commercial copyright infringement, and described as a "ReDRM" dongle because copies of...

Copy software called "nibble" copiers appeared that could exactly reproduce such disks. Publishers turned to other methods. Hardware dongles were occasionally...