Now the question comes how we can make our dongle much more efficient regarding software protection.
-Using API along with enveloper that already exists can be effective way to protect the software. It is very basic that the enveloper is already preventing the hacker. But if the hackers have gained success in breaking through the enveloper in any other program it can also break the other one.
-Calling dongle APIs in different places or more precisely in every stage of operation can be effective. Or one might do a random checking even when no application is on.
-Multiple dlls can be kept as buffer in every part of the dongle operation. For example a copy of sxd.dll can be kept in print.dll, open dll, and other places and then function calls from the dll with other names. In that case if in first case the dll is hacked still there are other dll to carry forward the work.
-One can bind together the dll that is used to call the dongle function together with the executable. There are some programs like Penndel which are capable of doing this.
-The specification of the PC that helps in the running of any particular software can be stored encrypted form inside the dongle, and make the application check it each and every time before doing any job. What makes it a demerit is that it will make the software completely locked to the PC. Changing any hardware might stop the software from running.
-Using more than one function might help to increase the security. It will definitely be much better than just using find function to look for the dongle.
-The alteration of the programs that are concerned with the protection of the software can be a useful tool also. By this even if the hacker had succeeded in hacking through a particular version of the software it will not be the same for later versions.
-Random checking should be on, just like just 3 out of 10 checking programs to the dongle are confirmed. This will make the hackers confused whether his attempt will work or not.

The licensed software protection dongle is basically useful for the protection of the software thus enabling the developers to secure their interest, help them reach the correct users and help them move for further development of the software.

The basic need for such system comes from the facts like the following
-It helps the developers and the vendors to secure license program thus confirming sales and profits.
-It helps in distribution and also the updating any particular software.
-It helps them keep a definite record of the amount of consumption of their product.
- It helps them determine the reach, working efficiency of their product as there remains a user provider relationship.
-From the user point of view it provides much flexibility in usage programs ,like licensing for a particular period, acquiring on a lease, subscription, or pay per use.
-A single USB dongle might control more than one particular software or even an entire networking program might rely on single software.
-Every copy of the software remains registered and protected. Thus it enables the users to get all the facilities that the software is equipped with.
-It helps in combating phenomenon like reverse engineering in mostly two ways, the envelop and the APL. The envelop has pre-canned defenses to fight reverse engineering while the APL system performs a custom check of the allow embedding calls to the hard ware in a particular code to restrain reverse engineering attacks.

The dongles are differentiated on several grounds like the following.

Differentiation by port
-There are serial ports which are now history
-With the advent of modern USB port the parallel port dongle has almost vanished.
-The USB port dongles are presently the most widely used dongles.

Differentiation by drivers
-For dongles working with driver, the customer first has to install the driver before inserting the dongle. The driver based dongles are found to be very problematic. Problems are mostly caused due to the drivers.
-The driver free dongles are much easy to use. For this, one just needs to put the dongles in a USB and start working. It is much efficient and reduces the time of unwanted technical support.

Differentiation by cases
-There are dongles which have water proof cases made of plastic and molded around the circuitry to water from entering. These are very useful for any outdoor based work.
-The other type doesn’t have water proof casing rather the circuitry is kept in a plastic case.

Differentiation by real time clock
-The dongle that contains a real time circuitry inside keeps a real time count on the usage thus helping the software vendors to ensure usage period for any particular user.
- The dongle without a real time clock keeps this count. There preset time given by the manufacturers but it can change owing to the change in the time of the system.

Apart from these there are also other differentiations based factors like storage among all others.

According to the claims of Keith McDevitt, a detective inspector at the Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency of Scotland, if the wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) networks in the United Kingdom were left without adequate protection, they would be sitting ducks for those people that aspire to make use of these.

McDevitt was found to be explaining to the newspaper Daily Record that it meant increasingly possible embroilment of people in problems related to activities of fraudulence, as such wireless broadband connections could be used by criminals to purchase items online using a filched credit card or download explicit content from the internet.

The Scottish detective inspector added that at least for a short span of time innocent people were likely to be criminal investigation suspects, as the police might arrive at their home armed with a warrant to examine, search and seize their personal computers; all for one main reason that the people failed in taking some simple measures to secure their Wi-Fi connection.

Recently, TalkTalk, one of the most popular internet service providers operating in the UK that specializes in cheap business broadband packages, had disclosed that around 7 million households in the country were vulnerable to the sort of WiFi wireless broadband hijacking.

Would you believe it that the president of the most virulent capitalist state in the world was given an opportunity to address a gathering of university students in the city of Shanghai by the government of a country that is renowned as one of the last bastions of Socialism. And more surprise in store to know the subject of his speech – human rights. Nevertheless, the Obama juggernaut rolled on as he unfolded his message, so delicately balanced, as broad as broadband internet, “I think the stronger becomes the society as more freely the information flows, for the citizens of the countries across the world can then hold their governments accountable.”

Apart from the verbalization by Obama attempting to encourage a misdirected and excessively subservient population to conceive the essence of human rights, everything that happened there bore an air of apprehensiveness, if it was to be given in an honest vein. Take the reports of the various newspapers, which mentioned a subtle message being apparent in the words of Obama that unless the only superpower in the world and its rising challenger worked hand in hand few challenges faced by the world could be solved. However, given the historical facts anyone with a decently healthy psyche can predict that China’s would be the last government in the world to enjoy the statement of the American president that he was one of the biggest supporters of non-censorship.

Of course, Hu Jintao’s China is no Stalin’s Russia, ruthless Deng Xiaoping must be no more as well, but still seldom are they unaware of the fact that there do still exist in the red state the remnants of the bloody massacre of Tianenmen Square that took place in the late 80s. And seldom would they forget that the tens of thousands of youngsters that flocked at the place then to meet with their destiny had come there to importune for the permission to exercise their rights. For everyone across the world, but the regime of Xiaoping, they were obviously humans. According to Chuck Doherty, the broadband specialist at Broadband Suppliers, fortunate were the rest of the people around the world at the time, for not having largely exposed to the internet; because it would had been a burden then seeing the live clippings of the bloody carnage and topping that up by sitting helpless.

“Anyway full marks to Barack for telling them that – although he was saying this as part of his addressing the students, the message was well hurled at the leadership of China – they in the United States considered it a source of strength for having unrestricted or free internet access, which he thought should be encouraged as well. His message was full of implications that even if evaded by the Communist leaders feigning ignorance, was certain to go right down the hearts of the millions of commoners – lovingly called proletariat even in a socialist people’s republic – languishing there under the ‘most charitable’ eyes of the ever-greedy bureaucrats and politicians”, said Doherty.

Doherty added, “One of my Chinese acquaintances, now settled in Oklahoma City, an ardent fan of Wayne Rooney and the quad-play broadband TV phone mobile bundle packages of the UK, once gave it rightly and candidly that he was fed up of the so called communist politicians straddling his homeland like parasites, sucking the fluids out of the fatigued trunks of peasants and industrial labourers that toiled for the country relentlessly to give it the status that it enjoyed at present. Nonetheless, he was full of hope that some time in the future the system would change for goodness’ sake.” “Meanwhile, I personally think that Barack looked a bit too much diplomatic as he not only refused to acknowledge the Dalai Lama, apparently to placate the communist giant, but also swallowed the fact that the internet sector of China posed a grave threat to the rest of the countries’ cyber-systems by spawning out an astronomical load of viruses and worms from its arsenal”, lamented Doherty.

Indeed it is a point that simply having the back-up of the most advanced broadband/mobile broadband technologies that gives fast outputs regarding data transfers and bandwidths would seldom amount to reaching the goal, unless the service is provided in an unrestricted manner. Comparing with the broadband internet scenario in the UK where people are free to express their will against some uncalled for services such as monitoring their internet ventures using the ISPs or even proposing certain legislation to disconnect the service of the persistent file-sharers, the broadband using public of China can be rightly termed as a dumb lot given to unmanly submission, simply for the reason that it has lost that character of protesting against subjugation. And if it is their trait then it is high time it has been said, “There exists no genuine broadband user, but state financed hackers and hijackers in China.”

I, half an hour back had the luxury of walking and talking with this man Jaffar Navaz who runs a sound restaurant here. I had realised his culinary skills earlier at his joint while savouring his recommended ‘Roghun Josh’, an indigenous spicy lamb preparation of the Hindukush mountain belt. However, I found out later that our consensus limited within the subject of the Roghun Josh. Particularly for his prejudice against a proposed Hollywood film, Indian Summer that would conceive the controversially romantic saga of Nehru-Edwina Mountbatten relationship. Navaz’s opinion was shaped up on the moral grounds that the great men of history should be spared from the late Paparazzi culture of even digging the graves for sensitive content. And on being asked what was wrong in having an affair with a beautiful lady after all, his reply was simple and terse. He said, “I suspect a slander intended that the great man had been promiscuous for going after another man’s spouse, which could even push the politics of the country into a whirlpool.”

I am obviously unsure if Navaz’s stance reflected the general attitude of the people of India. Nevertheless, I have definitely come across scores of noble souls in that part of the world, who thought that there were more serious aspects attributed to the greats of the past, to be followed as well as maintained ardently. However, only time can say whether the production of the Hugh Grant-Cate Blanchett starrer heeds to the Indian government’s order that the love scenes between characters based on Nehru and Edwina be deleted from the movie.

Meanwhile, in another part of the world – to be precise the land that gave birth to the Mountbattens – a research carried out by a pro-broadband website revealed that the majority of the British broadband customers believed that their UK broadband provider’s service was reasonably secure. The website unveiled the fact that nearly 90 per cent of the UK customers thought they had a reasonably secure broadband connection. Along with this some other figures were also published by the website, such as 85.9 per cent of users believed that they themselves were responsible for their internet security and 78.5 consumers have installed an Anti-virus + Firewall package. I sincerely do not know if there is something common between the Indian Summer controversy of the Indian folk and the internet security concept of the UK folk.

But, while ambling on the pavement of Hollywood Boulevard, I do not know why I am hit by this strange feeling of insecurity, which has almost nullified the euphoria that I had acquired a little while back when I passed through the Walk of Fame here. My insecurity, to be honest, can be linked with my knowledge that a legislation proposal was waiting for me back home that could see my internet connection terminated for the crime of downloading content illegally. Inadvertently as well, because I have a bunch of young friends most of them in their teenage, and I also do not monitor their activity on my system. Never mind, now I can chuck out my insecurity thinking that even if I am left deprived of a home broadband connection, I will still continue as part of the digital Britain. As a respected 50p monthly tax payer of this country, for I do own a copper phone line in Britain.