Common guys I dont know how to explain you this. Ok I bought upgrade software from PAR to upgrade from PAR 6.52 TO PAR 6.6 so that I can use integrated credit card payment system in POS itself. After installing software, I have to enter following FEF code (03 03 A1 02 06 00 03 00 FF FF 34 5E 31 98 74) to activated payment function in POS menu. It is the same program for all stores except FEF code or key is different to activate in menu. My question is I saw FEF code for other store and the only difference between mine FEF code or key and other store is from (34 5E 31 98 74). The last five numbers are different. Is that store number or what? That's what I want to know. I dont want to keep buying software for each store but I have to do that cause PAR provides with FEF code. I was wondering if I can figure out last five numbers in FEF code by myself since first 10 numbers in FEF code is same for any store. Thank you
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So, the situation is: only one store number is authorized; And, you want deploy the integrated credit card payment system to every store.
So, you are trying to steal the software?
You are trying to buy just one copy, and then "hack" the security key code so that you can use it in multiple stores?!
This explains your reluctance to contact the supplier!
"I was wondering if I can figure out last five numbers ..."
And we're somehow supposed to know the answer to that one?
www.partech.com/.../point-of-sale.html
I mean, is this guy something or is he something?
Most forums with requirements to register would have you permanently banned for trying to break licensing protections.
By the way - exactly why do you want other peoples to work for free to crack software licenses, just because you are unwilling to pay the license fee? All your focus is on saving own money. Not on monetary loss for PAR, or how how much time you consume for other forum visitors.
can it be that this clown is trying to commit credit card fraud...?!
When you "buy" (sic) software, all you actually get is a licence to use the software - you do not own the software!
Usually, the licence will allow you to use the software on only a specific system(s), or a specific number of systems. If you want to use the software on more and/or different systems than your licence permits, then you have to pay for additional licence(s).
Often, software vendors enforce their licence terms by issuing some kind of "key". This is a cryptographically-generated code that "unlocks" the features that you've paid for - and only those features.
Obviously, since it is this key that guarantees their income, the software vendor will not have used something that is easy to crack!
If you want to use these features, you need to pay for them; if you don't think they're worth the money, then you will have to seek an alternative solution!
"I dont want to keep buying software for each store"
So what would you say to a customer who came into one of your stores, and took something without paying for it, on the grounds that they paid for the same thing last week and "dont want to keep buying stuff each week"...?!
The data from the POS terminal should normally be well protected. Having an extra POS terminal to hack the internals of before swapping with the real terminal is an attack regularly used. Normally, the shop gets a burglary but can't figure out what was stolen. Then a couple of days or weeks later, they get a second burglary. Once or twice, the company has had an inside man - Toys-R-Us in Sweden did suffer from that last alternative a year ago.
Having a stolen POS terminal that is intended to be swapped with another terminal obviously requires the stolen terminal to be upgraded to the required feature level before the swap, or the shop owner would immediately call and complain that one function has stopped working. A visit to the service menues would probably instantly tell that it has the wrong serial - or store - number.
What we can tell, is that this is not a person who should receive any help. And that is the general case whenever questions about point-of-sales equipment are asked. The only good POS questions are: Who sells xxx, which one is better or similar.
"Who sells xxx, which one is better or similar."
Which is, clearly, entirely off-topic for this forum anyhow!
See: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread15775.asp#msg80030