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  • Subject: Re: Is it possible to crack the BPCS Key logic?
  • From: "Bill" <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:05:24 -0700

Elsberry,

> Breaking a software key logic is a 'moral' issue.

No it's not, not on it's own.  Breaking the logic in order to get something
not paid for would be.

>  Stealing, no matter what the motive, is still stealing.

Agreed.  But we haven't been talking about stealing have we?  We've been
talking about overriding the security check.

>  In the 10 years that I have worked with SSA,
> and 5 for them, I have never seen them be so unreasonable as to deny a
> permanent key to someone just because they won't pay on-going support for
a
> non-supported older version.

Do you still have contacts there?  Call them up and ask them their current
standing on this issue, and make sure you talk to the holders of the keys.
If by chance you get the answer that goes against what I have proposed, ask
them if they ever held that stance this year.  If they reply it has never
been their policy to withhold the key, then they are lying.  If they reply
that their current policy is as I have represented it, what is your stance
then?

> If you have to rationalize why you're doing something like this, it is
> probably to appease your own conscience and not to support some flimzy
> business reason.

Hmm, I would think being unable to operate software that was legally
licensed would not be a flimzy business reason; maybe your business is
different.

Bill


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