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Originally Posted by dumbfck
Haha yeah. Although most people who get "hacked" are people who gave their login to someone and then fell out with them xD.
I keep meaning to get a *ahem*copy*ahem* of .NET Reflector to see how much it actually gives away with C# stuff lol. Eventually, I'm going to want to pack my PW Messenger program when it's all finished :P
No idea when to start though. I'm guessing whatever I do to try to protect it, someone will probably crack it in a few minutes xD.
But yeah... Some people have made the grave mistake of saying "This x is uncrackable". That's just like waving a red flag in front of a bull 
(Almost) Nothing is truly uncrackable.
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Just use the trial version of reflector, it's scary how well it works
There's no real use for protecting something that isn't intended to make you money though. People will use your stuff cos it's awesome, and if it's free they don't care about cracking it
If you were actually gonna make money then yeah, you'd prolly have to put some thought into that lol. One of my bigger issues with trying to make money with software with this target audience would be going through all that effort of protecting it. The other issue would be that I don't wanna bother maintaining stuff for whingy idiots
By the way, I've been programming a bit more in C++ now, and depending on the way you program, it looks an awful lot like C# really. I'm getting more and more used to it now, although out of bound stuff not producing a nice error, but instead causing other variables to mysteriously vanish is still a bit of an issue lol. The biggest issue is the lack of a nice way to quickly make a gui (afaik). Since I'm going the d3d route I have to build one anyway, so it's not a big deal. Can imagine it being the biggest turn-off for you though.