Hi Kees, yes, I realize, Scott posed this issue as well regarding needing an internet connection while you could be working in the “field”.
I am thinking about how I can solve this for you, while maintaining good application security. This is a hard thing to do and I don’t envision a good solution yet.
Scott proposed to do a once a week verification, if it fails for an entire week, than the program would stop. But that would still be a problem in your situation i would think, since you have disconnected your computers from the internet on purpose, right?
For instance, the security of Pixinsight is really weak, if you install PI on another computer and copy the license file of a working license, PI will simply always work and it will not check with any server/database. It will think it was properly activated. (So buy once, and copy a zillion times seems to work… Please, if anybody asks, you haven’t got this information from me… ? )
I’ll most definitely try to find a solution for this, I would hate it as well if my program doesn’t run, just when I want to use it when I gathered some nice data on some remote lokation with no internet.. ;-(
Need to do some studying on application security I think…
I have put this issue at the top of the RFC list.