Anti-piracy using a USB pendrive

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:54 pm

FWH 7.12 is going to provide several functions to use a USB pendrive as anti-piracy protection system.

Please run this test with a pendrive (plugged or unplugged):
http://www.hotshare.net/file/16342-6394189d08.html

There is no way to clone the USB and even if you reformat it, its serial remains the same :-)

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:29 pm

New test:
http://www.hotshare.net/file/16342-6394189d08.html

Thanks!

Marc Vanzegbroeck · Post by **Marc Vanzegbroeck** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:24 pm

Antonio,

Now I'm getting a Serial-nr on both USB-drives that did't return a number with the previous test!!!!

Marc

Roberto Parisi · Post by **Roberto Parisi** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:28 pm

Does it works in Win 98/me?

Regards,
Roberto Parisi

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:45 pm

Marc,

Thanks for your feedback :-)

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:46 pm

Roberto,

> Does it works in Win 98/me?

We have not tested it yet under Win 98/Me

Roberto Parisi · Post by **Roberto Parisi** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:52 pm

No, it doesn't work on Win98/Me, serial number is empty.
Do you us wmi to read values? I tried it too and I got the same result.

Regards,
Roberto Parisi

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:18 pm

Roberto,

> No, it doesn't work on Win98/Me, serial number is empty.

:-(

Well, at least it is usefull for other Windows versions

> Do you us wmi to read values? I tried it too and I got the same result.

Part of the code is based on wmi, other portions, no

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:59 am

Here you have a full working sample:

http://www.hotshare.net/file/16421-89987245cf.html

Milan Mehta · Post by **Milan Mehta** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:29 am

Dear Antonio,

This can be a great boon. I soon will have to update my FWH !

Keep it up.

With best regards,

Milan.

Silvio · Post by **Silvio** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:41 pm

there is a code source for it ?

Adolfo · Post by **Adolfo** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:04 pm

Antonio.

Sorry , but cloning USB drives, even with the serial is easy to do in LINUX, just use DD to acomplish the task

dd if=all.img of=/dev/sda1
For creating a FULL image...

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=all.img
for "recreating" the drive...

dd if=dev/sda of=sdb
for doing it on the fly...

Easy, since it just copy the device (hd, partition, image, fd, usb drive ) one block at a time, and has no concept of the filesystems or files
that reside on the device. It's just binary data as far as dd is concerned, from the very begginning to the end.

I've tried to solve a problem related to USB drives spoiled by letting'em near a TV set, and Found this some months ago.

I repeat, best antycopy protection is a good support.

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:35 pm

Adolfo, did you tried yourself to read the clone and the original and did you compare all the values?
I tried to clone with Ghost and Acronis always on a WINDOWS system but the S/N was different.
I am curious to hear from you.
Best regards,
Otto

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:51 pm

Adolfo,

The USB serial code is from hardware, not from software. So it can't be copied.

MarcoBoschi · Post by **MarcoBoschi** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:37 pm

Antonio,
may I try too?
Thanks