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Originally Posted by Jordan
It only works well for applications that are online based and many PHP/ASP scripts do have phone-home functions in them.
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And for this to work, of course, the PHP/ASP would need to be encoded [using Zend or ionCube] so the user cant remove the "phone-home" software, and such encrypting software is very expensive [close to $1000] which is why most developers don't use it.
While there are online services that encrypt files for you on a pay-per-file basis, encoding a single file will let the user know "this is the file that contains the 'phone-home' software." So he sends it to a "dezender" site and for $5 he gets the file decoded - then he can go on his merry way nulling the software.