full-disclosure - Ioncube Encoded PHP Files

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Message-ID: <200512220446.jBM4k79K027524@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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.
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