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[Charlie Chan]

Hi!
I want to write a audio processing software.
I've already written some source code.
Now the question arises how I protect me against hackers.
How do you protect yourself from others stealing your source code through internet(spyware for exampe)?
Can you give me some advice?
Do you know for example good free software ( file guards for example)?

[Crane]

I have never had a problem with people stealing m source code from my computer. A decent firewall and some virus protectin should suffice. You can zip it up with password protection.

[lasthell]

First set right permission to your source code files. Second if hacker have access to your computer through a rootkit or backdoor, he can do anything with your machine, even manipulating spyware detection or antivirus softwares. So better keep the file set encrypted on your harddisk. NTFS provides that future.

Anyways when you will publish your software, if its really good, people ll find out its source code using reverse engineering.. :) so dont think much beyond setting some security measures.

[R-G]

Yes, I agree in this matter. However, there are other techniques today for computer software protection. If we take an example of a protected source or intermediate computer software code, we get a obfuscated computer software code that should be very hard to read and understand for humans, although for good computer scientist this doesn't represent a invincible issue.

[Xav]

Ein gutes Idee, R-G!

[R-G]

Xav said:

Ein gutes Idee, R-G!

The notion "Idee" has the gender "die", not "das". This means that you have to change some other words as well.

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Eine gute Idee!

You see the connection?

[Xav]

Ich habe gedenkt, dass "Idee" neuter ist, aber wenn du sagst, ist es richtig.

[R-G]

Xav said:

Ich habe gedenkt, dass "Idee" neuter ist, aber wenn du sagst, ist es richtig.

Not the notion "Idee" or any other notion can be "neutral", or whatever you actually ment.

Xav said:

Ich habe gedenkt.

I'm not sure if this statement is the right grammar.

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Ich habe gedacht.

If we translate it in the English language, we get the following.

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I thought.

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Aber wenn du sagst, ist es richtig.

The correction is simple, if you however have a question don't have a doubt to ask.

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Aber wenn du das sagst, dann muss es wohl richtig sein.

[Xav]

How come you say "it must probably be right"? Wouldn't "it will probably be right" make more sense?

[R-G]

Yes, but when you'll be working with linguistics a little bit more, you'll see that you can't translate sentences always literally.

[Xav]

Oh, so now I'm incompetent, huh?

[R-G]

Slow down, and simply read what people write. The answer is no, I guess you have a lot of potential.