Hi Houston,

>To hear Garrett Fitzgerald, you would get the impression that a developer (and a pretty good one at that) could come sailing into ones office, immediately find an appropriate PC, reverse engineer all of the presumably readily identifiable components and get to the data in short order.

In a *typical* VFP application, not one like yours where you have spent considerable time developing what seems like a very impressive security architecture for your data, I would be more concerned about the user. In my experience, the typical VFP app uses a mapped drive to a server somewhere that contains the DBF files. The user has read/write rights to the data directory and could VERY EASILY cause some trouble or just burn a CD with the DBF files.

Is my experience unlike others out here?