Similar to how one vendor locks their machine down by license to MAC
address. Took me all of five minutes to figure that out and change the
MAC on another box and another half hour have a fully working "DEV" box.
They also used Ioncube to scramble their code. That took a few days to
find a l337 h4x0r to convert via Hushmail. 8-)
I liked the mechanism in The Da Vinci Code. Maybe something like that
would work!
Thanks,
Steve
Matt Dunkin wrote:
I think one of the first people to respond hit this right on the
head... Asterisk is GPL and you cannot copyright something that is GPL
however you can copyright your configuration files and gui. I would
suggest writing your gui in something that can be compiled and
requires a unique license code (that is compiled from something unique
on the pbx appliance, like the serial number on the hard drive) for
operation. Even then you are only eliminating the average user as
someone will eventually figure out how to hack it.
Cheers,
Matt Dunkin
Paul wrote:
Use an encrypted file system. Store the crypto key in a flash memory
device. Enclose everything in a thick steel case that is welded shut.
Add some switches to detect case intrusion and immediately erase the
flash device that stores the crypto keys.
C F wrote:
While you at it, also make sure that whenever you are by a client,
modify their hosts file to redirect asterisk.org, digium.com, and
voip-info.org to your own website.
What makes you think that they can't go to the above websites after
you copy protect your box?
And BTW, even after copy protecting, how hard is it to clone an
offline HDD?
On 12/21/06, Stephen Arulraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anybody has any idea how to protect your Linux box with a perfectly
running asterisk in it? I live in China and when I put together one and
sell it, it's likely to get copied by someone else and soon you see
clones appearing all over. How about a dongle of somesort?
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