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From: petrilli at trump.amber.org (Christopher Petrilli)
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Date: 16 Apr 1999 11:46:42 PDT
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Subject: restore sources from PYC [Q]
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References: <000101be879c$8aed0670$6eba0ac8@kuarajy.infosys.com.ar> <m3aew9njhp.fsf@atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk> <37177D8E.FF43BF65@bigfoot.com>
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Message-ID: <7f80ii$7m0@journal.concentric.net>
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X-UID: 1364
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Hoon Yoon <hyoon at bigfoot.com> wrote:
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> What happens if you do NOT want your pyc codes to be reverse engineered?
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> Can you prevent someone from doing this type of rev eng?
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You can obscure it, but never more than that... you can reverse out C
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code too... at some point it must be executable, that's the point. Maybe
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you won't get the exact code back, but you will get something close.
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> Some members in my IT committee always have a problem with this ability
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> and often used as excuse to kill any new tech adoption.
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Then you better throw out all your compilres :-) Oh, and Java too :-)
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Seriously, this is a non-event that people use to spread FUD, but it
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exists in all languages. The simplicity with which it can be done
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changes, but it's never more than a freshman college project.
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Chris
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--
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| Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for
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| petrilli at amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright
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