Istvan Albert wrote: > >was using to track clients and transactions. He couldn't demonstrate > >the program for one reason or another because it was protected in a way > >that neither could circumvent. (She didn't remember how it was > >protected, she had hired this person a long time ago.) > > I'd venture to guess that neither of the people above knew much about > programming. So do the same, create a security measure that protects > against this level of 'threat'.
I could ask her, "If you can't break it is that good enough security?" > As others have pointed out the simplest way would be to detect the > presence of a hidden file, or some hardcoded system value, mac address > etc. Obscure this step even more by encrypting some of the information > so that one can't just simply view it in a hex editor. > > Istvan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list