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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:22:49 -0600
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The only reliable way to prevent a customer from reverse-engineering
>> your software is to not give them the software.
>
> Not really...

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
> It depends on the threat and how competent persons you want to protect your
> code from. If this comes from your boss, chances are he does not know that
> even x86 machine code can be decompiled. So as many has said, this is
> mostly futile business. The only way to protect your code is never to ship
> anything.

How is that last statement different from the one I made above, that
you disagreed with?