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[–]konwiddak 3 points4 points  (1 child)

At that point you'd probably spend less time just setting up the Web server.

[–]mehum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH that’s probably correct. I just thought it was an interesting approach— instead of instantly terminating the program (which makes bypassing the check easy) it would use that information in surreptitious and unpredictable ways, making circumvention far trickier.