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nyanpasu64 on March 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU

A serial number is not a password, it's a username, and copying it down isn't hacking.

otterley on March 4, 2022 | [–]

Copying it down isn't the problem. Falsely claiming that it is associated with a machine that belongs to you is.

nyanpasu64 on March 4, 2022 | | [–]

Tying an app to hardware identifiers (effectively dongle-based DRM) is the problem.

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