I've been working with a friend trying to come up with a way to backup his important data. He's wanting to put a flash drive or portable drive in a fire safe. I'm thinking the temperature in the safe, while not enough to damage paper, will damage the delicate electronics in a flash drive or warp the platters on a hard drive. I've sugg...
Many countries now have data protection legislation which afford individuals the rights to: request that an organization hand over all information they hold on the individual and to request that any information held on the individual is destroyed Facebook got into trouble over the second part of this in the UK as it is nigh on impos...
Can any script or setting be written (autorun file?) to disable formatting of a USB Flashdrive? (Win XP, via Windows Explorer > Format) I'm aware of write-protection, but I don't want to completely prevent modifying files, instead something like what a Group Policy setting could do? Edit: Really what I'm asking for is a registry setti...
I've developed a web-based application that a company is interested in licensing. I suspect they intend to appropriate the features they want, and add to their existing codebase, so a license is likely to be a one-time affair. Since it's interpreted at run-time, I'd have to turn over the source, and it's not immediately apparent that I c...
I have a large link database, that I would want to protect against others who would want to copy them. Is there anything I can do other than force people to enter a CAPTCHA before each link? ...
Im building a "premium" section of my site and Im in a need to give download access to files in a remote directly (on a different server), to users with special privileges (accounts stored in mysql db). My site is coded in php/mysql so a php solution would be great. ...
I have an application which stores data to the persistent store by setting the contents of the PersistentObject as a hashtable, e.g. saving preferences is done by entering strings as the keys and values of the hashtable and then setContents is called on the PersistentObject with the Hashtable passed as the parameter. I understand that t...
Possible Duplicates: How do you protect your software from illegal distribution? Best practice to prevent software copy Hypothetical situation: Lets say I have built a software product from the scratch and it does wonderful things. The only problem is that, once someone takes a look at the code, they will understand it very...
I am building a web application which will store general details (address, email, landline....) about my company's clients. What security measures should I put in place to comply with the Data Protection Act principles? Is there anywhere a specific list of measure to put in place? Sorry I forgot to mention In UK. ...
Hi everybody. Does anyone know a possibilty to protect a string-wildcard from changing in a textarea? HTML: <textarea name="mail_text" id="mail_text"> {salutation} {recipient}, thanks for your email. Regards {username} </textarea> I would like to catch when someone tries to change one of the wildcards: {salutation},*{recipient}* and...
What are the best practices for delivering an Adobe Air app that needs a private key in order to communicate with some online API? Adobe Air apps seem like they are delivered to the user with full source code, so storing any keys within the source would be a really bad idea. I've read some suggestions saying to download the key from you...
Hi all, Is it possible to delete-protect a file/folder using Registry or using a custom written Windows Service in C#? Using Folder Permissions it is possible, but i am looking for a solution that even restricts the admin from deleting specific folders. The requirement is that the administrator must not be easily track the nature of p...
I'm creating a login system in PHP, and I want to know how to best protect the user information string in my cookie. I was thinking of encrypting the string with a key somehow? Is this the best way? I'm kinda new to this. Thanks in advance. ...
I am building car rental web-application software I recently encountered a concern from a possible client; that they don't want the software company to see their data in the database. They load their rates contracts etc which are confidential and don't want anyone apart from them have access to this data, including our dba or some devel...
While installing an application onto a client's server, I would like to make sure that the client (or a future developer for them, etc) does not copy my application and place it on other domains/servers/local servers. How can I verify that my application is running on the server I installed it on? I do not want any substantial lag in th...
I'm writing an iPhone application that requires its data to be encrypted. I've learned how to turn on encryption for files by setting the NSFileProtectionComplete attribute. I also know how to check the iPhone version to make sure they are running iOS 4.0 or better. What I've realized though, that if the user has not chosen a passcode a...
Hi all, I'm currently working on a new project, and I would like to publish it as Open-Source... The project consists in a server and a client created to emulate a famous 2d game... There are already 2 or 3 some other projects of this type (Open-Source), but you all know in these days people have the habit to rename the work of other peo...