in reply to Re^10: Why is it bad to hide the source?
in thread Why is it bad to hide the source?

And?

If I give you an executable, can you extract the source? I'd love to see that.

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Re^12: Why is it bad to hide the source?
by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 03, 2011 at 12:43 UTC
Re^12: Why is it bad to hide the source?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2011 at 05:33 UTC
    And?

    What do you mean and? Your own words say encoding, not weak encryption, but encoding :D

    If I give you an executable, can you extract the source? I'd love to see that.

    I could (filealyzer,peexplorer,objdump....), but I'm not a monkey

    ;P

      Yes, except that NONE of those will magically extract the source.

      Have you guys considered, just possibly, just maybe, for one moment that you are actually incorrect about this? And that actually you aren't fully understanding what the script does?

        Yes, except that NONE of those will magically extract the source.

        Magic isn't required, we're programmers.

        Ok, fine, here is magic, http://www.tssc.de/products/tools/memdump/

        Have you guys considered, just possibly, just maybe, for one moment that you are actually incorrect about this? And that actually you aren't fully understanding what the script does?

        No, the script is plain as day.