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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Tom Munro Glass
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 1999 18:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
>
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> I've also been using the HD serial number to try and stop people making
> illegal copies of my code, and also encountered batches of
> machines with the
> same number.
It may be that in a corporate environment you have encountered machines that
have been imaged from common disk images - presumably the serial number is
stored somewhere in the disk directory by MSDOS. I assume you mean the
number that comes up when you do a dir listing.
> Does anyone know of a foolproof way of uniquely identifying a machine so
> that code can be locked to only work on that machine?
This is why Intel put an ID into the P-III and it is something that from
memory has been talked about for many years for the same reason.
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