Trial Period Expired

[eluser]skunkbad[/eluser]
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever implemented anything into applications they make that can disable the site even after FTP logins and control panel logins have been changed. I've been doing this by creating a "secret" method in one of my controllers, and if I browse to it and supply the correct argument, it basically overwrites the root index.php file with a message that says, "Trial Period Expired". I know it could be easily disabled, but I'm obscuring the code quite a bit so that it isn't easy to find. What are your thoughts?

[eluser]Georgi Budinov[/eluser]
Well there are software products that have this feature - some of which are paid and expensive.
IonCube is one of them and it is the most popular - well paid also. It obscures the code in byte cde as I know, makes the execution faster and adds features like the one you are looking + code working on domain basis.
ZendGuard is the other solution - pretty much the same but I don't know much details on it. You can look at it.

Of course there are others cheaper and free solutions which are of course easier to brake .. hack ..
I have heard of breaking ionCube too, One day I tried some how-tos on how one can do that .. no success - perhaps the reason is jjust me