Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

This may be a bit of a stupid question.... but here goes...

We have several Checkpoint FWs at work and I can get license details
from our FW admin.
I want to install a copy at home on a Win box and maybe an old Sun box.
(I just want to practice using the Checkpoint interface a bit). The FW
will be behind my home ISP router so I can use any IP on the outside
interface. Can I get the license to work on my home servers somehow? (I
know there is an eval version but I want to have a working FW for
longer period).

Thanks
Ron

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

On 29-Aug-2006, unixzip@yahoo.com wrote:

> This may be a bit of a stupid question.... but here goes...
>
> We have several Checkpoint FWs at work and I can get license details
> from our FW admin.
> I want to install a copy at home on a Win box and maybe an old Sun box.
> (I just want to practice using the Checkpoint interface a bit). The FW
> will be behind my home ISP router so I can use any IP on the outside
> interface. Can I get the license to work on my home servers somehow? (I
> know there is an eval version but I want to have a working FW for
> longer period).

Why would you come to a public newsgroup and tell the world that you want
to break the law?
And ask for help doing it besides?
If nothing else, this 'type' of question belongs in a ng with the word
'crack' in its title.
HTH HAND
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Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

unixzip@yahoo.com wrote:

> This may be a bit of a stupid question.... but here goes...
>
> We have several Checkpoint FWs at work and I can get license details
> from our FW admin.
> I want to install a copy at home on a Win box and maybe an old Sun box.
> (I just want to practice using the Checkpoint interface a bit). The FW
> will be behind my home ISP router so I can use any IP on the outside
> interface. Can I get the license to work on my home servers somehow? (I
> know there is an eval version but I want to have a working FW for
> longer period).

Just ask Checkpoint.

Wolfgang

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

>
> Why would you come to a public newsgroup and tell the world that you want
> to break the law?
This is to be used for non-commercial use ONLY. if Checkpoint had a
consumer version, I'd use it.

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

In article <1156885807.468105.31220@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:

>> Why would you come to a public newsgroup and tell the world that you want
>> to break the law?

>This is to be used for non-commercial use ONLY. if Checkpoint had a
>consumer version, I'd use it.

Your posting IP address suggests that you are in the USA. If that
is the case, then you should be aware that the US federal laws
on "criminal copyright violation" specifically denies as defences
that the copying was non-commercial or was being done without a motive
of profit.

And in a situation where someone is attempting to learn how to use a
product in order to be more useful to their employer, as far as I
recall, US courts usually rule that the salary generally earned, and
the potential for raises for good work, are sufficient to count as a
"profit motive".

If you wish to avoid getting near to US Criminal Code sections 501
and 506, then you have a few choices:
- buy a license yourself, even if doing so requires taking out a
mortgage on your home
- have your company buy the license and authorize you to use it
off-site
- have your company send you a letter requiring that you obtain the
license, and then go ahead and buy it, and write off the cost of it
against your taxes (which can only be done with proof that the
employer required it)
- ask Checkpoint what kind of accomedation can be made -- e.g., they
might have a refurb older model that they'd let go cheap but which would
be sufficient to learn substantial parts of the configuration
- take a course (or have the company send you on a course) which makes
available equivilent equipment
- find a place to lease or rent the equipment from

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

This thread is going in the wrong direction. I only asked if this is
doable at all. If it is, I'll figure out the details by myself. Thank
you.
(And yes, I'm proud to run several "free" copies of Win2003, Exchange,
SQL Server, PeopleSoft, MetaFrame, OpenView, etc... just to further my
skills and get more pay. Let those without piracy expertise in this NG
cast the first stone...). Ofcourse all of you paid for your copy of XP
Pro, I'm sure...
Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article <1156885807.468105.31220@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
> wrote:
>
> >> Why would you come to a public newsgroup and tell the world that you want
> >> to break the law?
>
> >This is to be used for non-commercial use ONLY. if Checkpoint had a
> >consumer version, I'd use it.
>
> Your posting IP address suggests that you are in the USA. If that
> is the case, then you should be aware that the US federal laws
> on "criminal copyright violation" specifically denies as defences
> that the copying was non-commercial or was being done without a motive
> of profit.
>
> And in a situation where someone is attempting to learn how to use a
> product in order to be more useful to their employer, as far as I
> recall, US courts usually rule that the salary generally earned, and
> the potential for raises for good work, are sufficient to count as a
> "profit motive".
>
> If you wish to avoid getting near to US Criminal Code sections 501
> and 506, then you have a few choices:
> - buy a license yourself, even if doing so requires taking out a
> mortgage on your home
> - have your company buy the license and authorize you to use it
> off-site
> - have your company send you a letter requiring that you obtain the
> license, and then go ahead and buy it, and write off the cost of it
> against your taxes (which can only be done with proof that the
> employer required it)
> - ask Checkpoint what kind of accomedation can be made -- e.g., they
> might have a refurb older model that they'd let go cheap but which would
> be sufficient to learn substantial parts of the configuration
> - take a course (or have the company send you on a course) which makes
> available equivilent equipment
> - find a place to lease or rent the equipment from

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

> This thread is going in the wrong direction. I only asked if this is
> doable at all. If it is, I'll figure out the details by myself. Thank
> you.
> (And yes, I'm proud to run several "free" copies of Win2003, Exchange,
> SQL Server, PeopleSoft, MetaFrame, OpenView, etc... just to further my
> skills and get more pay. Let those without piracy expertise in this NG
> cast the first stone...). Ofcourse all of you paid for your copy of XP
> Pro, I'm sure...

I have never and will never steal a program and you, sir or madam, are a
common thief. That is the pure and simple fact no matter what spin you
may wish to try to put on it.

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

On 29-Aug-2006, Bud wrote:

> > This thread is going in the wrong direction. I only asked if this is
> > doable at all. If it is, I'll figure out the details by myself. Thank
> > you.

I tried to give you the hint in my first response, go to a 'cracker'
newsgroup and you may get more 'helpful' advice.

> > (And yes, I'm proud to run several "free" copies of Win2003, Exchange,
> > SQL Server, PeopleSoft, MetaFrame, OpenView, etc... just to further my
> > skills and get more pay. Let those without piracy expertise in this NG
> > cast the first stone...). Ofcourse all of you paid for your copy of XP
> > Pro, I'm sure...
>
> I have never and will never steal a program and you, sir or madam, are a
> common thief. That is the pure and simple fact no matter what spin you
> may wish to try to put on it.

Why do people insist on being proud of being immoral and illegal? Where
did this attitude come from anyway? It's ok to copy it, the original is
still there! But, that just means that the poor schmuck that did actually
pay for it in the first place is simply paying for your and his copies
then.

So, Bud, do you enjoy making your friend / associate / whomever you got it
from pay double? Are you truly that kind of person inside?
Oh, wait, I'm sorry, you have already labeled yourself as a 'pirate', one
who pillages and rapes without thought of others. In that case, get thee
hence, I already told you where your type 'hangs'.
btw, do you know that there are truly free alternatives to just about all,
if not all, of the programs/OS's you listed above? Legally free.
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Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

On 29-Aug-2006, "ArtDent" wrote:

> So, Bud,

My bad.
I apologize.
Sorry.
Looked at wrong posters name there.

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Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

In article <1156894993.616968.170610@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:

>Ofcourse all of you paid for your copy of XP
>Pro, I'm sure...

I can't speak for the others, but I know that I did. I bought my
computer used from someone with an OEM license, and I paid extra
(market price) for the upgrade to Pro. I have the holographic sticker
and the receipt.

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

In article <1156894993.616968.170610@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
>This thread is going in the wrong direction. I only asked if this is
>doable at all. If it is, I'll figure out the details by myself. Thank
>you.

There is no LEGAL way to do it in the USA.

Is there a way to do it "at all"? Of course there is: no known software
anti-copying measure can withstand having several tens of millions
of dollars of copying effort put into it. It might take a scanning
electron microscope and a couple of NSA signals intelligence officers,
but it can surely be done... eventually.

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

> My bad.
> I apologize.
> Sorry.
> Looked at wrong posters name there.

Boy, good! I was afraid I would have to sic the Mounties on you. LOL!

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

wrote in message
news:1156875848.587812.94930@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> This may be a bit of a stupid question.... but here goes...
>
> We have several Checkpoint FWs at work and I can get license details
> from our FW admin.
> I want to install a copy at home on a Win box and maybe an old Sun box.
> (I just want to practice using the Checkpoint interface a bit). The FW
> will be behind my home ISP router so I can use any IP on the outside
> interface. Can I get the license to work on my home servers somehow? (I
> know there is an eval version but I want to have a working FW for
> longer period).
>
> Thanks
> Ron

G'day Ron,
If you just want to practise using the Checkpoint interface a bit, then
simply install the GUI Client. When you start Smart Dashboard, check the box
that says "Demo Mode" You can play all you like with the interface then,
even use the rulesbase and objects from work!

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

Re: Any way to duplicate Checkpoint license?

Very easy to do this, and you don't have to "duplicate" anything. You
just need the cplic string or the lic file.

If your just interested in pushing policy and learning the in's and
out's... then just create a "fake" network behind your ISP edge box
that your appliance will reside on. As long as your "external" ip addr
of your CP enforcement point box has the ip addr of the license
(depending on what type of licensing you have... central or local),
then your good to go. If you have centralized licensing, then it
doesn't matter what your external ip addr is.

If your really interested in learning, then you don't need to route
anything out to the net... all you need to be able to do is push
policy, log to your mgmt station, etc... nothing short of getting
smartdefense updates requires you to go out to the net.



--IB



Wayne wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:1156875848.587812.94930@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > This may be a bit of a stupid question.... but here goes...
> >
> > We have several Checkpoint FWs at work and I can get license details
> > from our FW admin.
> > I want to install a copy at home on a Win box and maybe an old Sun box.
> > (I just want to practice using the Checkpoint interface a bit). The FW
> > will be behind my home ISP router so I can use any IP on the outside
> > interface. Can I get the license to work on my home servers somehow? (I
> > know there is an eval version but I want to have a working FW for
> > longer period).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ron
>
> G'day Ron,
> If you just want to practise using the Checkpoint interface a bit, then
> simply install the GUI Client. When you start Smart Dashboard, check the box
> that says "Demo Mode" You can play all you like with the interface then,
> even use the rulesbase and objects from work!
>
> Wayne McGlinn
> Brisbane, Oz