I agree with you 100% on your post about it not protecting the user. I'm just discussing what the point of it is there for. :)

It's not security against people and getting secrets from the system. Lemme give you an example. Say someone who is writing an encryption module, doesn't want you messing with the initialization vector because it holds no value to other developers, then making it private is up to that developer. The users aren't always people on the other end of a program, but also people who develop using your API. Those people who write the API are the ones who define the architecture to be "upheld".

I'm just pointing out that while yeah, it doesn't protect end users in the long run from getting data out of the system. Just make the process core dump, right? That protection is against people extending the system (or playing with it) in awkward ways that they shouldn't depend on. It might change, or may break something. That's what upholding the architecture is about. It means developers don't do stupid things and make it really hard for them to do just that and keeping the ideas behind the system right

It's the bars around dangerous machinery. People aren't trusted to not hurting themselves. For perl, the bars are a simple line in the sand saying, don't cross this line. For some languages, it's a steel wall.


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In reply to Re: Re: 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. by exussum0
in thread 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. by pjf

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