Mailscanner is a good tool. I set it up with spam-assassin to filter the insane amounts of spam we get at our small office. What got me started was finding this article that steps through a setup. I didnt use mcafee but the walk-thru helped anyway.
Good point. Just like the point-n-click SMBdie proggie;) All it takes is one person and a method of distribution. I guess there really is no point in trying to copy-protect.
"The location, length and number of embedded key codes can be customized for each CD-ROM title, making it more difficult for hackers to find and decrypt the codes."
It has to be predicatable some how - otherwise the software "decoder" wouldn't know where to look for the the keys and how many to check.
It's a never-ending cold war. The better the protection, the better the crackers will get. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The best they can do, as has been said many times before, is raise the effort required to crack the protection high enough that the majority of users will just give up and pay the $$
But you still need to make sure the software that looks for the keys doesn't get cracked. Why bother trying to duplicate the hidden keys when you can disable the software that checks for them?
Better reason to start encrypting everything. I do hate to see this type of power in the hands of a private company, though I'm sure monitoring like this has been done before. This tool just simplifies the data collection into a central, easy appliance.
What would be better than making you "sign up" to view your profile? Just for authentication, you know, to make sure nobody else accesses it "by mistake".
Then, they'd have names and email addresses to go along with browsing profiles, if they don't have a match for every one already. Neat trick, if you ask me.
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Mailscanner is a good tool. I set it up with spam-assassin to filter the insane amounts of spam we get at our small office. What got me started was finding this article that steps through a setup. I didnt use mcafee but the walk-thru helped anyway.
Good point. Just like the point-n-click SMBdie proggie ;) All it takes is one person and a method of distribution. I guess there really is no point in trying to copy-protect.
It has to be predicatable some how - otherwise the software "decoder" wouldn't know where to look for the the keys and how many to check.
The best they can do, as has been said many times before, is raise the effort required to crack the protection high enough that the majority of users will just give up and pay the $$
But you still need to make sure the software that looks for the keys doesn't get cracked. Why bother trying to duplicate the hidden keys when you can disable the software that checks for them?
Better reason to start encrypting everything. I do hate to see this type of power in the hands of a private company, though I'm sure monitoring like this has been done before. This tool just simplifies the data collection into a central, easy appliance.
What would be better than making you "sign up" to view your profile? Just for authentication, you know, to make sure nobody else accesses it "by mistake". Then, they'd have names and email addresses to go along with browsing profiles, if they don't have a match for every one already. Neat trick, if you ask me.
That's the problem. And I still haven't seen how we're getting access to our profiles.
And after all that, it'll still be wrong