Hide the python-script from user

Sherm Pendley spamtrap at dot-app.org
Sun Apr 8 05:40:25 EDT 2007


jmcbray-usenet at carcosa.net (Jason F. McBrayer) writes:

> A determined and technically savvy user will surely find
> the key (not least by debugging the start-script).

... and then write a patch that disables the key, and distribute that to
a few million of his not so determined or savvy friends.

> Basically, this doesn't work for the same reason that DRM doesn't
> work.

That reason being, it only needs to be cracked once. The odds are heavily
stacked in the crackers' favor.

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