Hi Andrew,

I would say that SS is more secure, because you can manipulate file
system permissions to prevent anyone else other than administrators (of
the db server) and the FB user account from gaining access to the fdb
file and gbak etc.

Still if there is an organised conspiracy within your customers to get
the db, it is no more secure, but it certainly prevents grass roots
attacks.

Of course you can get around this often by hosting the database on a
server you control.

I cant tell you about what 2.0 does exactly as I haven't investigated,
but it is all in the release notes.

Adam