Pirate Pocket Mechanic, get your data booty plundered, matey (Engadget)
“Anyone remember CDRWin? If you gave it a pirated serial it would just take it without question and punish you by spitting out bad CDs all the time. Well, a bit more harsh is the maker of Pocket Mechanic, Anton Tomov, who programmed his app to hard reset (i.e. cause total data loss on) the Pocket PC of anyone with a blacklisted or artificially generated serial. “
Pirated Software Can Trash Your Pocket PC
Posted by geeknews at 8:26 AM on February 7, 2005
Posted in Crime, Operating Systems, Software
Pirated software erases your PocketPC
Geek News Central are reporting that the developer of an app named Pocket Mechanic has introduced a ‘feature’ which forces a hard-reset (thus erasing your data) if the user inputs a pirated serial number. Sounds like the Echelon fiasco all…