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jeffwass 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

I was wondering this actually, why not just skip past the check entirely instead of going through the effort to pass the check without the dongle?

harph 8 months ago [–]

Because sometimes skipping is not enough: https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

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