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Subject: Re: A mathematician's go on this (even sneakier)

Author: Shep

Date: 14:05:28 04/20/01

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On April 19, 2001 at 16:37:19, James Swafford wrote:

>All these "modify with time" ideas get blown out of the water with
>a simple "date" command.  Of course, he would have to suspect it
>first.

Not really. There are copy protection systems based on the date (like "ask for
CD every N days") which cannot be fooled by changing the system date (e.g.
MChess and Hiarcs/DOS use one of those).
It would take a rather experienced hacker to overcome this.

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Shep



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