Hi, Well then I suppose at least my other plan would've been possible, to reset the keys, or use an expiring key or something. Regards, Damien.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] game cracking > Hi damien, > what you are proposing to do is virtually impossible from a realistic > stand point. In general email clients save all account settings > including the user's email address in special account files in the local > user's Application Data folder. If we were talking just one email > program it might be a feasible concept. However, there are several email > application choices out there including Outlook, Outlook Express, > Windows Mail, Udora, Thunderbird, etc. It would be a nightmare to write > a utility to support every known email clients unique account file and > look inside for email settings and addresses. > Then there is of course all those users that use web mail services such > as Yahoo, Google, Hotmail, etc which saves all the account settings on > the host's server.In that case you are really in trouble as you need > admin rights to the server just to get a peak into those files, and need > to know what account to look into. In other words really and truly > impossible. > About the only way you might be able to get their email address is have > a demo registration screen that comes up when running the program > forcing them to register the demo with a valid email address. this isn't > ideal, because even that can be faked or cracked which was the very > thing you tried to prevent in the first place. > > Damien Sadler wrote: >> Well that would've been a slight problem. I thought it was possible to >> track >> down an email address by their IP address, but many things could've >> prevented that. I'll have to look for a method of retrieving the user's >> email address from their computer or something like that. >> I'm sure their email address would be stored somewhere in the registry or >> in >> their email client's server settings or whatever, unless there's any >> other >> way of doing something like this... >> At least though, if I couldn't track down the user in question's email >> address, I'd've had to release a patch that made all the previous keys >> invalid and provide new keys to my existing customers who had obtained a >> legal key. >> >> Regards, >> Damien > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
