[geeks] Adobe's Software Activation

[Phil Stracchino]

kevin at mpcf.com wrote:
> Does this sound like BS to anyone else?  I mean, you can repartition, ease
> and change file system types all without low leveling a drive.  How (and
> where) could Adobe products actually write data that would not get erased if
> I say.... repartitioned a drive and changed its file system from FAT32 to
> XFS, then once more to NTFS?  None of this would involve low leveling a
> drive, but it's hard for me to believe that Adobe could stash data somewhere
> safe from all of that.  Are they writing crap to the MBR or something or is
> this just BS?

They wouldn't be the first, from what I understand.

*cough*  *cough* *Intuit* *cough*


-- 
  Phil Stracchino
  Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker
  phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
  phil.stracchino at ceva-dsp.com
  Mobile: 408-592-8081