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Date: Thu Dec 22 04:46:29 2005 From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Ioncube Encoded PHP Files On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:51:14 +0100, Joachim Schipper said: > Though I wonder what the point is - it's not likely to be all that hard > to run the code on another system. The main point seems to be to prevent > administrators from making local changes, and I must admit to not seeing > a problem with people who have bought the software doing that. You've never had to handle a support call that involved a customer that was clever enough to fuck around with the code, have you? That's a tech support nightmare waiting to happen, because it's guaranteed to be a major sinkhole of resources figuring out if the customer has hit an obscure bug in your code, or if they simply dorked it up. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20051221/77b8f8b3/attachment.bin
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