restore sources from PYC [Q]
Christopher Petrilli
petrilli at trump.amber.org
Fri Apr 16 14:46:42 EDT 1999
Hoon Yoon <hyoon at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> What happens if you do NOT want your pyc codes to be reverse engineered?
> Can you prevent someone from doing this type of rev eng?
You can obscure it, but never more than that... you can reverse out C
code too... at some point it must be executable, that's the point. Maybe
you won't get the exact code back, but you will get something close.
> Some members in my IT committee always have a problem with this ability
> and often used as excuse to kill any new tech adoption.
Then you better throw out all your compilres :-) Oh, and Java too :-)
Seriously, this is a non-event that people use to spread FUD, but it
exists in all languages. The simplicity with which it can be done
changes, but it's never more than a freshman college project.
Chris
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