Prevent Modification of Script?

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Thu Apr 5 00:57:25 EDT 2007


"ts-dev" <time.swift at gmail.com> writes:

> If the scripts can be modified (very easily), how can the
> application be trusted?

This sounds far more that you don't trust the application *user*.

If that's the case, don't deploy the application such that the user
possesses it. Run it as a service on a machine controlled by people
you *can* trust.

That, or re-evaluate your reason for dealing with people you don't
trust.

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