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[rayarachelian]

I think I found the byte in the extents that turns on protection. I hope Tom doesn't mind, but I used his LisaMandleBrot tool to test this.  I know, this is pure evil.

It's writing a 1 byte to 0x48 in the tool's extent that does it. i.e.

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Sec 43:(0x002b)   Used Block Part of file extent-ffff0008:"extent-ffff0008"
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tags:       00 00 01 00 ff f7 . 00 00 07 ff 07 ff             
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0000: 0c 7b 54 32 37 31 38 32 . 38 7d 4f 42 4a 31 30 30   |  ,{T271828}OBJ100
0010: 0d 51 50 2f 55 51 50 6f . 72 74 53 6f 72 6f 63 0d   |  -QP/UQPortSoroc-
0020: 53 59 a0 34 3b 3a 08 01 . 18 2f 00 15 0e 00 a0 34   |  SY 4;:(!8/ 5.  4
0030: 3c c7 a0 34 48 78 a0 34 . 3c f5 00 00 00 00 00 00   |  <G 4Hx 4<u     
0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |          !!     
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
0060: 00 00 00 00 4e 56 fe fc . 20 6e 00 0c 00 00 00 01   |      NV~| n ,   !
0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
0080: 00 00 00 19 00 09 00 01 . 00 00 00 63 00 19 00 00   |     9 ) !   c 9 
...
...0180: 00 02 12 4c 69 73 61 4d . 61 6e 64 65 6c 62 72 6f   |   "2LisaMandelbro
0190: 74 50 6f 72 74 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |  tPort           
01a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
01b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
01c0: 00 00 00 18 01 00 00 21 . 00 12 01 69 02 a5 80 00   |     8!  ! 2!i"% 
01d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |         !       
01e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
01f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   |                 
lisafsh> editsector 0x48 01 01
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Sec 43:(0x002b)   Used Block Part of file extent-ffff0008:"extent-ffff0008"
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0000: 0c 7b 54 32 37 31 38 32 . 38 7d 4f 42 4a 31 30 30   |  ,{T271828}OBJ100
0010: 0d 51 50 2f 55 51 50 6f . 72 74 53 6f 72 6f 63 0d   |  -QP/UQPortSoroc-
0020: 53 59 a0 34 3b 3a 08 01 . 18 2f 00 15 0e 00 a0 34   |  SY 4;:(!8/ 5.  4
0030: 3c c7 a0 34 48 78 a0 34 . 3c f5 00 00 00 00 00 00   |  <G 4Hx 4<u     
0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   |          !!     

I don't know what's at 0x49 but I saw LabelList turn that one on too. So may need to experiment some more.

I present you a copy protected version of the LisaMandleBrot app. Once serialized this copy will only work on your Lisa! 
So I suspect changing byte 0x48 on all tools might disable serialization permanently, but I've not tested this yet.
There's still some other unexplored weirdnesses around serialization, for example, LisaProject and LisaWrite on installed physical Profile images don't seem to have been branded, but other tools are. But that's a discussion for another time. I've also discovered that using losdeserialize on tools that are already on a profile hard drive will prevent them from working, so there's some other stuff on disk on hard drives but not on floppies that locks them down and removing just the serial number at offset 0x42 is insufficient.

[stepleton]

"Tool 9684"? That's not a very inspiring name, is it? I wonder where that came from. The tool number I chose for the thing was 271828, per the build script. Go figure...

[rayarachelian]

"Tool 9684"? That's not a very inspiring name, is it? I wonder where that came from. The tool number I chose for the thing was 271828, per the build script. Go figure...

"I am not a number, I am a Mandlebrot Set!"

So yeah, it totally works, removing the bozo bit from the tool install floppies i.e. LisaGraph no longer gives a warning dialog box about serialization. You can copy them all you like now. I spot checked this only with LisaGraph, so we'll see if any other software actually checks.

As a laugh, I also added a new tool to enable the bozo bits on any floppy that has a LOS tool on it, so if you want to enable DRM on your Lisa software an ensure lots of sales, you can now do that. And you don't even have to go to Apple for it. Woo! Think of all the millions we'll make by selling new Lisa apps!

We're gonna be rich, Tom! 

Hmm, I wonder if there's a limit on the number of tools. 271828-9684=262144 which is 0x4000. Wonder if there's a mask of 0x3fff or something at play there.

[rayarachelian]

Hmm, looks like LisaProject is working now. I think there was something wrong with the original deserialization. Wasn't a file system issue at all.