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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: How to HIDE Files on a mac to prevent Piracy?
- Message-ID: <12NJ03Ac615K00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:31:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.065903.25124@news.columbia.edu> <Bt0q9C.HGt@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) writes:
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- }On a technical level, you can simply set the invisible bit with ResEdit.
- }I don't know if the Control Panel will read invisible files, but it might
- }work. However, DON'T DO THIS. It's not enough copy protection to be
- }useful, and it's guaranteed to make paranoid people like me on edge. If
- }I install a program, and it starts writing invisible files over my hard
- }drive, I'll want to know why, and don't think that making them invisible
- }will cause trouble for anyone with enough knowledge to reverse engineer it.
-
- I want to second this. Don't use invisible files. Consider what happens
- if I try out your application, don't like it, and drag it into the trash.
- But I've still got your invisible files taking up space on my disk. I'll
- tell you, when I discover them (which I'm sure I will, eventually, because
- I use things like ResEdit and DiskTop which show invisible files), I am
- going to be VERY pissed at you. There is NO excuse for an application
- to create invisible files.
-
- --James Preston
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