Re: MSDE Security (aka users looking at my apps database)

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From: Unicorn (unicorn_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:15:35 +0930

Only One JASON, FORGET IT.

I have been called in more than once to untangle all sorts of developer
installed security, I do it and will continue to do it.

Developers who think that business data should be locked up from the
Business should be locked up themselves. If your data is proprietary,
then I suggest you create your own encrypted storage system! But give up on
trying to lock the rightful owners of data out from it by denying them
access to the database.

Your schema etc. Might be your work, but locking out legitimate uses of
the data is in my opinion about as quick a way to get your application
dumped as you can get. Companies expect to be able to throw a copy of
Crystal Reports onto a machine and interogate the database for the
information that they want, in the manner that they want it, when they want
it.

As foir competitors using your schema in their own products, you must be
joking! They might however write conversion routines to 'upgrade' from your
product. This is a fairly normal business practice.

You sound like Apple complaining about Real Networks, or an IBM salesman
from the 1970s, telling the customer that MS-Dos on a compatible PC is just
not as good as an IBM PC-XT with PC-Dos for running Lotus 1-2-3

Matt

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