[asterisk-biz] Copy protect your Asterisk Box

[Steve Totaro]

Similar to how one vendor locks their machine down by license to MAC 
address.  Took me all of five minutes to figure that out and change the 
MAC on another box and another half hour have a fully working "DEV" box.

They also used Ioncube to scramble their code.  That took a few days to 
find a l337 h4x0r to convert via Hushmail.  8-)

I liked the mechanism in The Da Vinci Code.  Maybe something like that 
would work!

Thanks,
Steve

Matt Dunkin wrote:
> I think one of the first people to respond hit this right on the 
> head... Asterisk is GPL and you cannot copyright something that is GPL 
> however you can copyright your configuration files and gui. I would 
> suggest writing your gui in something that can be compiled and 
> requires a unique license code (that is compiled from something unique 
> on the pbx appliance, like the serial number on the hard drive) for 
> operation. Even then you are only eliminating the average user as 
> someone will eventually figure out how to hack it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt Dunkin
>
>
>
> Paul wrote:
>> Use an encrypted file system. Store the crypto key in a flash memory
>> device. Enclose everything in a thick steel case that is welded shut.
>> Add some switches to detect case intrusion and immediately erase the
>> flash device that stores the crypto keys.
>>
>> C F wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> While you at it, also make sure that whenever you are by a client,
>>> modify their hosts file to redirect asterisk.org, digium.com, and
>>> voip-info.org to your own website.
>>>
>>> What makes you think that they can't go to the above websites after
>>> you copy protect your box?
>>>
>>> And BTW, even after copy protecting, how hard is it to clone an
>>> offline HDD?
>>>
>>> On 12/21/06, Stephen Arulraj <sa at solomonstar.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Anybody has any idea how to protect your Linux box with a perfectly
>>>> running asterisk in it? I live in China and when I put together one and
>>>> sell it, it's likely to get copied by someone else and soon you see
>>>> clones appearing all over. How about a dongle of somesort?
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