Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.lang.python > #30411

Re: Python source code easy to hack?

Date 2012-09-28 09:56 -0600
From "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
Subject Re: Python source code easy to hack?
References <0023d73b-00f6-4d82-b68b-eb28f4587ab1@googlegroups.com> <b475fbe4-39f3-448d-9d93-5a5ee038e53a@googlegroups.com> <mailman.1554.1348843084.27098.python-list@python.org> <04a311f6-9162-40d6-8fc7-acc0b0128bc8@googlegroups.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1569.1348847806.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw


On 9/28/2012 9:19 AM, sturla@molden.no wrote:
> kl. 16:38:10 UTC+2 fredag 28. september 2012 skrev Jerry Hill følgende:
>
>> This is true, but both java and .net are also relatively easy to decompile.
> Neither of them are very "obfuscated".
>
>
>> In general though, why does it matter?
> Paranoia among managers?
>
>
>> What are you trying to protect yourself against?

Embarassment?

Patent trolls?

Unauthorized access to priviledged features?

Industrial espionage?

Sounds like a web solution is the best way. Use a thin client and run your NSA-level code on a server. It's worth pointing out though that even c/c++ isn't free. If someone wants to decompile or disassemble your code bad enough, it's going to happen.
  

>> If you must keep anyone from ever seeing how your code works, the only way to do that is to keep all the sensitive bits running on a machine that you control.
> Indeed :)
>
>
>
> Sturla


-- 
Take care,
Ty
http://tds-solutions.net
The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Python source code easy to hack? Jayden <jayden.shui@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 04:57 -0700
  Re: Python source code easy to hack? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-28 13:17 +0100
    Re: Python source code easy to hack? zig-zag <zig-zag@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-28 14:30 +0200
  Re: Python source code easy to hack? sturla@molden.no - 2012-09-28 07:18 -0700
    Re: Python source code easy to hack? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:38 -0400
      Re: Python source code easy to hack? sturla@molden.no - 2012-09-28 08:19 -0700
        Re: Python source code easy to hack? "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2012-09-28 09:56 -0600
      Re: Python source code easy to hack? sturla@molden.no - 2012-09-28 08:19 -0700
  Re: Python source code easy to hack? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:37 -0700

csiph-web