Re: Self Destruct code in a .stl file

From: Joe DeGuglielmo (jfdegug@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 1997 - 00:04:12 EEST


I'm not a programer by any means. But isn't it possible to have a
background program running that could purge files that are a specified
age?

Don Wilde wrote:

> Sorry, Michael, but you aska da impossible. An STL file is just a data
>
> structure, not a program. Even if you were to package the file in an
> encrypting program that kept it locked up until a certain date, asking
>
> it to regurgitate the file would allow the file to be captured and
> saved
> as an openly readable file.
> --
> oooOOO O O O o * * * * * *
> o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________
> ___==_
> V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com
> ]
> /
> o0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo

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Regards, Joe DeGuglielmo



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