SOFTWARE PROTECTION DONGLE

In the continual fight against software piracy, many companies offer what they consider to be innovative software solutions. Very often these solutions are good deterrents, aiming to help prevent piracy and protect customers from software tampering, as well as easing the burden of software license management. However, even with new anti-piracy innovations, counterfeit detection and tamper-resistant features, software mechanisms to protect licenses and counter copy piracy, pale significantly in effectiveness when compared with the modern USB hardware key dongle. New dongle technologies such as battery-backed embedded real-time clocks and code-porting features put the software protection dongle in first place when it comes to near-perfect protection from software license abuse... The dongle is a software protection device that takes the shape of a small piece of hardware that plugs into a communications port (generally USB) on a computer and serves as an electronic "key" for a piece of..