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Re: Code hiding in Perl

by sundialsvc4 (Abbot)
on Jun 26, 2015 at 10:51 UTC ( [id://1132122]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Code hiding in Perl

Echoing more-or-less the sentiments already expressed here ... it would be far better for you to find a way to trust the customer’s network, and, by extension, the customer himself.   Or, at least, hire a lawyer to write you a decently bullet-resistant contract.   Your alternative strategy appears to have been to install a custom modified Perl interpreter (!!) on that same customer’s “untrusted” (sic ...) corporate network, and I doubt that you can show me (or the Honorable Court) that you had written authorization from a VP-or-higher to do such a thing.

The only reason why I’d allow a third-party contractor to do such a thing is if I didn’t (yet) know he was doing it.   Why is this third-party “hiding [my?] business logic” from me?   “Is he setting me up for future extortion?”   (I’m quite serious.)

You have concocted an elaborate technical ploy and ... like so many others who kit-bashed a pseudo-cryptographic something-or-other ... you can’t see through it nor see (or acknowledge) its faults even though, or because, others have quickly pointed them out to you.   But you also don’t seem to have considered that this sort of thing could land you in a courtroom, having lost your contract, your former-client’s case, and your goodwill.

In saying this, I intend neither to be personal, nor crucifying.   Merely to be coldly blunt and candid.   You have, in more ways than one, stepped on ice where you should not be.   Reverse your steps, carefully but quickly.

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