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Re^3: How to hide a password in a script?by Aristotle (Chancellor) |
on Aug 06, 2004 at 22:48 UTC ( [id://380760]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
He's gambling on the fact that people will not expect and therefor notice that $password is evaluating to something different on the first call. I think he'd manage to confuse someone for a while with his smoke and mirrors. Which is a problem — because this must not be documented, you can bet there's going to be at least one person will be freaked out, whether or not a cracker ever sees it: the maintenance programmer. Makeshifts last the longest.
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