Talk:Hardware Against Software Piracy

Is there any evidence that HASP is a general acronym, and not merely a product name? I suspect that this entire article is an advertisement, and as such should perhaps be deleted. A reference to the HASP acronym from any source other than Aladdin systems, referring to anything other than their product, would suggest this article is legitimate. However, I could find no such reference.

Earlier versions of the article contained blatant advertisements to the Aladdin product. 24.20.141.179

I am moving a comment added Oct. 8, 2007 by 76.112.162.195 from the main article body to below. Thanks, Metamusing 20:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

This is outrageous! A hasp is the hardware item that padlocks are placed through. It is not a commercial system. 76.112.162.195


 * I understand the concern expressed by these comments, and perhaps you are correct. I haven't researched it.  I am familiar with the Houston Automated Spooling Program, commonly known as HASP in the computing industry, which was developed in the 1960's.  There is a "see also" reference to this stub at the top of this article.  That stub is definitely not marketing.  IBM's HASP is no longer in use, but is presented for historical value.  So if this article should be deleted, I think we should direct HASP to that stub. Thanks, Metamusing 20:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
All evidence is that HASP is a particular line of hardware keys sold by Aladdin. The subject of hardware keys is much more thoroughly covered at Dongle. --Rpresser 18:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Computing
I have removed the WikiProject tag, as this article is either a redirect or deleted. If you oppose, please restore the tag. Thank you, fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:03, 30 March 2009 (UTC)