I'd use Buddy to write an encrypted string to an ini file. If the ini file is missing, or the encrypted string isn't what you expect it to be, bail.
Which didn't answer the question! Have another read, I'm sure you'll have ideas about the real question too.
Indirectly your suggestion might be to delete the ini file, but that could leave a genuine user who managed three successive thpos, I mean tupos, no trpos (something like that...), completely confused. A way around that would be to have an alert (triggered by lack of deleted ini file) that says "you failure, reinstall and try typing more carefully next time". Would that stop a hacker though? They would just reinstall and try again.
How about having it e-mail the manager if someone fails three times? That would be a more fun solution.
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