Hi,

Now as a web design/development student I am familiar with the coding and design practices associated with that stream, like people in the Software, Multimedia and Networking, etc streams. However, I have noticed that unlike software web design or multimedia do no have any assurances to protect the code, etc from people abusing something someone else has created. Yeah, I no their have been cd/dvd writers around for awhile now. However, I wanted to discuss what practices are in place to protect a piece of work. I am familiar with the VB 3/4 de-compiler and am a ware that there is not one (I'm ware of) for Visual Basic 5/6/.NET. Now, has anyone created a de-compiler for those languages or are they uncrackable?

The opposite applies in web design where the whole world can pinch the raw data from a website. All someone would need to do is browse to a website than view the source then select the link say of an image and put the link in the address bar and press enter. This goes straight to the location the file is stored at no questions asked. The only web language I have used that is somewhat protective is php because it is a server-side language it is not displayed in the source code in the browser.

Ok! Back to the topic at hand. What practices or technology is in place to assist us in I.T against people stealing our code, etc?

Thanks,

Nightwalker