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Ask HN: Kill Switch for Your Application
2 points by yair99dd on Sept 5, 2020 | hide | past | favorite
recently i had to distribute an c++ software to a client, and was asked to implement a kill switch. i choose to use libSSH, handeling an authentication process at the start of main(). i opened a user with /sbin/nologin on a server and sent the software with an ssh public key to challenge the server with. the hostname and user are hardcoded in the code. what other options do i have, how would you do it.


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