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Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting
Date 2015-06-24 18:23 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2015-06-24, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-06-24, Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mangling would at least prevent it from executing.
>>
>> If you don't want a file to be executed, then don't make it
>> executable.  Or doesn't Windows have any way to control whether a
>> file is executable or not?
>
> Windows doesn't have the Unix file system concept of execute
> permission, no. If a file has the .exe extension and the first 512
> bytes look like an appropriate header (MZ etc), Windows will happily
> run it. With other extensions, similarly - just create a .bat file
> and double-click it, it'll run the commands.

So can prevent execution, just by changing the filename?  Maybe 30
years using Unix has biased me, but that just seems so wrong...

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Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Here I am in the
                                  at               POSTERIOR OLFACTORY LOBULE
                              gmail.com            but I don't see CARL SAGAN
                                                   anywhere!!

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Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> - 2015-06-23 14:02 -0500
  Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-24 21:36 +1000
    Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-24 14:02 +0000
      Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-06-24 08:52 -0700
        Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-24 16:16 +0000
          Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-25 02:23 +1000
            Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-24 18:23 +0000
          Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-24 21:24 -0400
      Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-25 01:55 +1000
      Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-06-24 09:09 -0700
    Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> - 2015-06-24 13:20 -0500
      Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-24 18:29 +0000
        Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> - 2015-06-24 14:00 -0500
          Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-24 21:24 +0000
            Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> - 2015-06-24 18:13 -0500
    Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-24 21:33 -0400
    Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> - 2015-06-25 14:41 -0500

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