[PLUG] Code Protection

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Rod,
> 
>    Isn't it better to prevent the crime rather than to prosecute after the
> fact?

Yes.  But speaking from experience ( unsuccessful though it was ) I was
able to recover a script I wrote that was never paid for by the requester,
stolen by his 'partners', and the original code was lost during a company
reorganization ( went out of business ) before I could grab a copy.  I
found it on another hosting company's computer for a domain that I
recognized as the thieves.  I recognized it by the coding style and notes 
in the code ( CGI script ).  Not very good thieves, they didn't even file 
the serial number off.

Still being able to identify your code, besides helping in legal matters,
could be a deterent if it was "leaked" hidden idetifiers were in the code.  
And I probably shouldn't have brought it up but it still gets my dander up
when I think of it.  ( This is my button! :-)


Rod
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