May I try to hack it? [Software]
Hi Helmut,
I will let you beta-test it
And true to modern style software making I will reward you if you are able to manipulate the audit trail or result without the program detecting it. I expect noone is going to pay me for programming this stuff, so it is rather acceptable for me to promise you 15% of nothing. Will add a bonus, even.
However, if you do not manage to manipulate the audit trail or result without the program being able to detect it, then you have a choice of either of the following two severe punishments:
a. Getting thoroughly whipped by my ship's cat-o-nine-tails on the town square of Vienna.
or
b. Buying me a cold brewski next time we meet.
I imagine reverse engineering (decompile + change + recompile) would be the only way to manipulate it. Probably no way to protect any software against it, unless it is hosted on my local server and accessed remotely.
❝ would you share 15% of your honorary with me if I try to crack your code?
❝ My qualification: I validated an Agilent LIMS (HP LAB/UX) in the 1990s. It was both fun and scary to unveil how the audit trail was implemented (BTW, much easier on a Unix-OS than on Win). The system passed its first GLP-certification in 1997.
I will let you beta-test it

And true to modern style software making I will reward you if you are able to manipulate the audit trail or result without the program detecting it. I expect noone is going to pay me for programming this stuff, so it is rather acceptable for me to promise you 15% of nothing. Will add a bonus, even.
However, if you do not manage to manipulate the audit trail or result without the program being able to detect it, then you have a choice of either of the following two severe punishments:
a. Getting thoroughly whipped by my ship's cat-o-nine-tails on the town square of Vienna.
or
b. Buying me a cold brewski next time we meet.
I imagine reverse engineering (decompile + change + recompile) would be the only way to manipulate it. Probably no way to protect any software against it, unless it is hosted on my local server and accessed remotely.
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Pass or fail!
ElMaestro
Pass or fail!
ElMaestro
Complete thread:
- Audit trail in R Ken Peh 2014-07-01 05:37
- No audit trail in most software Helmut 2014-07-01 12:12
- R with audit trail? ElMaestro 2014-07-01 13:17
- May I try to hack it? Helmut 2014-07-01 17:51
- May I try to hack it?ElMaestro 2014-07-01 18:42
- May I try to hack it? Helmut 2014-07-01 17:51
