On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 01:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're kidding right?
Actually, no, I'm not kidding. Of course I have heard this discussed theoretically before (like stopping people from viewing the source of your pages, downloading your JavaScript files, stealing your images, etc), but I don't know of anyone who has actually implemented this type of "security". As I said in my previous post, if all you want to do is make things more difficult for your competitors, or show them that you are acknowledging the fact that they present a threat to you simply by knowing what the rest of the world knows about your business, than you can easily implement any number of solutions, however you can never actually post something on your website that you don't want your competition to know about, so at the end of the day, it hasn't bought you anything. > The same thing you gain by locking your house when you go to work. > Someone > could break in the window or just kick in the door... so why bother > locking > your house in the first place right? The problem with this analogy is that locked doors and windows are not what stop people from breaking into your house. Obviously, windows are easy to break and locks are easily picked. The fact that breaking into someone's house is morally wrong and illegal is what keeps most of us safe. It is neither immoral nor illegal to read someone website, even if they would prefer that you didn't. > Or if they're just not too bright. I've seen that happen too... even > to the > point where one company thought the other company went out of > business... > LOL. Now that's the EXCEPTION, not the rule... some people are just > that > dense. ;-) I say got for it. Given the fact that it takes almost > nothing > to implement (just like locking your house)... you might as well do it. Well, you raise a good point here. If it has worked for people in the past, I guess it can work again. Clearly the huge majority of people out there using the web don't know how to spoof an IP address, so the technique may well be perfectly effective, especially if they assume the company has gone out of business. I admit that if I were keeping track of a competitor's product by visiting their site once a day, then suddenly one day I couldn't reach the site, it might not occur to me to spoof my IP address -- at least not right away. I guess my only point is that you can never assume that your competition isn't reading your website just because you have made them jump through a few hoops like I assume every day that my house will not get broken into. Christian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
