[Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

[John Patterson]

That's a great point - I was envisioning a scenario in which end users are
to be (mostly) trusted not to take efforts to re-distribute the data.

John

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Niccolo Rigacci <niccolo at rigacci.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:53:50PM -0400, John Patterson wrote:
> >
> > I'd say that encryption is the answer here - hang the security on the key
> > rather than the code.
>
> I think that this is not the case depicted by Giovanni; if I
> understand well he wants to prevent the letitimate user (which
> receives the datasets) from using them freely.
>
> This is a sort of tivoization [1] on software + data.
>
> Encryption prevents the use of data only from the non-legitimate
> users.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
>
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> Niccolo Rigacci
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