

A good advertising trick, but actually nobody knows for sure why dongles are called dongles. There is a story that ‘dongles’ is derived from the name of a person who designed dongles first – Don Gall.

By attaching it to a computer or another electronic appliance a user can unlock software functionality or decode content or access a hardware device. A hardware key has a product key or other protection mechanism. A software protection dongle is a device that allows you to protect content from accessing and copying.
