Copy protection WAS Re: Hard Drives

[Richmond Mathewson]

Well, now I'm not sure about this:

I ran the script on my Macintosh (where I have the Admin account) and it 
returned the MAC address,a
as in did on Linux.

So? The Q is whether this will work on a machine where the user has a 
Guest account.

Richmond.

On 7/29/17 2:07 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi richmond,
>
>> Am 29.07.2017 um 12:57 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> BUT ;-)
>>
>> env001 presupposes with a Macintosh that you have superuser access;
> oh, sorry, did not take a deeper look.
>
> Maybe you can ask the user for his admin password and do the shell commands as "sudo"
> when the app starts the first time and there are no prefs yet?
>
>> now if I send you a stack and try to get that stack to get your MAC address and either send it to me or store it somewhere
>> I have a feeling that can only be done with your permission?
> Yes.
>
>> This may not be a bad thing as it does prevent a hacker having access to info that then might be used for bad things.
>> Richmond.
>>
>> On 7/29/17 1:53 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>>> Thanks for that.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>>
>>> On 7/29/17 1:46 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> Hi Richmond,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please check Ken Ray's great site for some valuable hints:
>>>> <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/livecode.htm>
>>>>
>>>> Especially:
>>>> -> disk001
>>>> -> env001
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a good starting point!
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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>
>
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