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Hi Alex,
a few thought about protection an usability (sorry for my not so good
english)
In former times I bought some blackbox high protected systems/indicators
(easctrend as example)
Today I use nothing of them anymore.... why ?
The guys bind there systems on things like system hardware etc. so if you
have
to change some system components ... harddisk (after failure) etc. you need
a
new code
if you want to switch to new hardware... you need a new code
if you use defragmentation some tools wouldn't work any longer you need a
new code...
For me as a trader its important that my system works ideal 100% all
the time... I have allways up a second computer as backup ...
but you can't do this with this kind of tools or you are willing to buy
them two times...
bad usability ... all protection is a new source of error - that makes in
practice
huge problems and as result cost you important time where your systems
doesn't work.
So after two three times you had this problems you damned this kind of
protection and tools... and don't use it anymore.
I think there is really NO good way to protect your work out there today and
nothing can be really protected ... if you can give someone a code to use a
tool
there is allways a hacker/specialist which can do this the same way.
The only two I find to be acceptable are to use the build in source
protection of TS
so no one can see your work and to bind it on the customer id of the user of
TS
(but its disappointing if you have to use TS2000i and TS 7.2 and you got two
different cust id)
The best protection in my opinon is to offer fair priced tools so it's
uninteresting for hackers to reverse engineer and make future business
unattractive for them.
ironically the tools from the hackers can be better because the don't bother
you with
some kind of annoying protection
Hope that helps
Ralf
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