The person you ask should be a close friend and NOT be working for a competitor.
About 7 years ago an acquaintance asked me about an accounting/inventory control program, which we had started using (with incredible difficulty and on-going problems) about a year earlier. The summation of my thought process in regard to this query was 'Why should I tell him? (soto voice) "Come on in Dear, the waters fine!" (vocal quaver)'
Actually, to maintain my professional integrity, I did not actually recommend it to him. However, I didn't pan it either.
If the encryption were well done, a major benefit to this would be that even if the same clear text data were written to the same location, the encrypted data written would be 'random' from one boot to the next. This is a Good Thing(TM) in preventing more esoteric data recovey efforts from being effective.
Let's look at this as a biological programming problem.
If certain very large and powerful software houses can not produce an operating system without bugs, even when they have the source code for all the tools that are used in the production of that operating system, how can anyone expect a positive outcome from patching an operating system which is orders of magnitude more complex and for which no source is available.
It was working alone and did't have time to document the code for the biological elements. The whole project had to be completed in six days.
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The person you ask should be a close friend and NOT be working for a competitor.
About 7 years ago an acquaintance asked me about an accounting/inventory control program, which we had started using (with incredible difficulty and on-going problems) about a year earlier. The summation of my thought process in regard to this query was 'Why should I tell him? (soto voice) "Come on in Dear, the waters fine!" (vocal quaver)'
Actually, to maintain my professional integrity, I did not actually recommend it to him. However, I didn't pan it either.
If the encryption were well done, a major benefit to this would be that even if the same clear text data were written to the same location, the encrypted data written would be 'random' from one boot to the next. This is a Good Thing(TM) in preventing more esoteric data recovey efforts from being effective.
Are you feeling lucky, punk?
Let's look at this as a biological programming problem.
If certain very large and powerful software houses can not produce an operating system without bugs, even when they have the source code for all the tools that are used in the production of that operating system, how can anyone expect a positive outcome from patching an operating system which is orders of magnitude more complex and for which no source is available.
It was working alone and did't have time to document the code for the biological elements. The whole project had to be completed in six days.
Are you feeling lucky, punk?
Who's years are you referring to?