jim i was in intellegence when i was in the army
one thing i learned.. theres no such thing is sometimes online sometimes offline.
for example
i backup using a usb flash drive
until now i went offline (flight mode) when working on my projects
finished? backing it up , deleting from harddrive and going online playing battlefield.
last night i was hacked
you know what they did?
"implented" an additional drive detector
(which is something i know from the army)
once its on your pc.. and you havent cleaned it up
theres nothing you can do
cause the next time you'll insert any kind of drive
the system will tell that tool " hi , this is the current working dir of the removable data drive"
so i had no idea this was happening
everything worked smoothly
backed it up and went doing my things...
the next time i went offline
connected my USB and for some reasons.. damn there are no files.. at all
i need to start it all over.. it wont take me too much time
but what you gonna do right?
so once youre online.. you are always online even if you dont think its true.. it is.
there are ppl with expertise you couldnot imagined..
the best example i can give you is the Virus in the Atomic Core in Iran.. they had no idea that everything they are doing is going also somewhere else.
Israel is one of the first countries when it comes to electronic piracy..
one thing to remmber never mess with an Israeli hacker.. its bad i dont like it im an Israeli also ... so its kinda hard speaking like that but thats the truth nothing you or i can do to change it...
i used the method you are speaking of for 1 month
and i got hacked 2 times
last night was the last time my Projects will ever be online in any kind of way until the release and publish on markets.