Yeah, that's actually a really good point. Oh well, I guess I'll just have
to hope that people decide to use the database responsibly... haha

Best,
Ross

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jungle Boogie <jungleboog...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Ross,
> --------------------------------------------
> From: Ross Altman <altman...@husky.neu.edu>
> Sent:  Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:38:41 -0400
> To: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
> Subject: Re: [sqlite] Make a database read-only?
> >
>
>> Thanks everyone for the helpful answers. Here's some context:
>>
>> The database I have is for academic purposes. Research groups will need to
>> be able to download it in order to do large-scale scans using it as input,
>> so putting it in a wrapper (in PHP, say) isn't useful. But, I don't want
>> someone else to take it, add to it, and put it online somewhere else, so
>> that there are multiple versions floating around the web. I don't mind if
>> there are multiple COPIES, but I want to make sure that they're all the
>> same.
>>
>>
> To a degree this sounds like the Streisand effect:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
>
>
> Pasting the sha256 is your best bet, but anyone who's going to verify the
> sha256 can already dump the database as explained by Clemens Ladisch.
>
>  Thanks again,
>> Ross
>>
>>
>
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