How to prevent sensitive information is displayed when the extension 'exe' is modified to 'txt' on windows?

FrankLike via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Jan 6 22:37:57 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 17:45:19 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 17:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 17:15:28 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
>>> How to prevent sensitive information is displayed when the 
>>> extension 'exe' is modified to 'txt' on windows?
>>
>> If the data is in the program, it is visible to anyone you 
>> give the program to.
>
> This. It's why games and other licensed applications still get 
> cracked, despite the industry spending millions (billions?) on 
> researching means to prevent it.
>
>> Alternatives would be asking the user for sensitive info 
>> separately from the exe like a config file that they must fill 
>> in or a password they must type when it starts up.
>>
>> Or just don't distribute the program to anyone who isn't 
>> authorized to use it.
>
> Or don't let your application contact the DB directly. Build a 
> web service or whatever fancy name those things have these 
> days, and let the web service connect to the DB. Your 
> application then connects to the service using a method of 
> authorization if your choosing.

Thank you ,it's a good idea.


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