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Add a trigger that doesn't fire until a few months after install (to prevent the cracker coming across it and patching it out) and then run rm -rf if it detects
by schnebbau 4y ago
Add a trigger that doesn't fire until a few months after install (to prevent the cracker coming across it and patching it out) and then run rm -rf if it detects it is cracked. Optionally display a countdown from 10 and play an alarm sound before this happens for extra lols.
- josephcsible 4y agoYou could go to jail for doing this.
- kazinator 4y agoProbably not. The plaintiff would be making their case from a very poor position. "I stole some software from a warez site, and months later, my system got wiped". The burden of proof is entirely on their side, and illegal activity isn't a great starting point. The time bomb could be hidden such that there is no traces of anything malicious in the software build. When the time comes, the software could contact a server from which it downloads a script to execute. The script does the job and then vaporizes. The mechanism by which that script executes could be something that licensed versions of the program use regularly (e.g. fetch a harmless, update-related script), so the discovery of its existence would prove nothing. Proving that it was your program could be very difficult.