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On Wednesday, March 07, 2001, 12:19:37 PM, Klinchik, Vitali wrote:
KV> Your EL code is stored on your local machine. All number crunching
KV> is also done on your machine. The only thing that you get from
KV> Omega's servers is data, which is cached on your drice in
KV> "DRIVE:\TradeStation\Cache" directory.
True, but that is not the direction that is of concern. :-) It would
be quite trivial to have the program send YOUR information along with
data requests and other handshaking needed by the system. It's what
goes TO Omega that is of concern.
Since much of the data is already 'encrypted' and can be sent in
packets, it would be develishly difficult to detect it. Omega is
notoriously closed about their data formats, and is unlikely to
change.
To make it easier, Omega could only send the studies that you actually
*use*, presuming those to be the 'good' ones. This is really a very
small amount of data and would be very easy to send back without your
knowledge.
One way to think about TSP is as a trojan that you *paid money* to
install on your computer. A hackers dream. :-)
ztrader
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