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[David Bolen]

Alan Kennedy <alanmk at hotmail.com> writes:

> I could imagine that decompiled jythonc'ed jython classes would be
> quite hard to understand, especially if you're not familiar with
> jython.
> 
> But certainly not impossible. It's more of a hindrance than a
> showstopper.

Also, whether Jython, or a Java obfuscator, it's not like the person
has to understand the majority of the application.  All they need to
locate is the section that does the authentication or startup check,
and change just enough code to bypass it.  Since there are typically
messages output when such checks fail, it's often easy to zero in on
the code involved.

-- David