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Old 12-11-2012, 09:01 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by WiKKiD View Post
Hardware is the same it's the software that talks to the cable that's different.

I have a ecutek cable and a rosstech vcds cable and eurodyne maestro dongle and opened them up to compare and they are almost identical

I can pay a friend of mine to break there encryption on the dongle and USB stick it will just be a little expensive. There's always a back door or exploit left open by the programmer who designed the software.

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There is the cable and the hw dongle which are two different things. You could do something to make the software recognize a non-Ecutek cable perhaps fairly easily.

Generally with the USB dongle people create emulators to emulate the key, these days it's fairly difficult to crack software which uses a hardware dongle. People create the emulator and then grab an image of a working hardware dongle. There are functions all over the software which check for the dongle so it's not like it checks on startup and then that's it. Also if you need to update the software you may be screwed as well and if the software itself phones home so to speak to register a dongle with a specific hardware ID it also makes things difficult.

Easier to just buy the cable.
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