A long time ago, some QB programmer posted on the QB echo his
 amazement at the run-time results of the statement PRINT 1 = 1.
 Someone replied that this interesting phenomena was one method used
 to keep hacker/pirates from finding critical IF statements in your
 program which determine whether it operates in registered or
 unregistered modes (if your program uses a code-key method).  Once
 these IF statements are found, the hacker/pirate can then use debug
 or such to place NOPs at strategic locations in your program to
 cause it to always run in registered mode.
    For the life of me, I can't see how to take advantage of this.
 In other words, I can't see how this can help avoid IF statements.
 Can someone explain to me how it's done?
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