Code Security

[koorb]

Since code can be decompiled, isn't anyone afraid their code will just
be relabeled and sold by someone else?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Since code can be decompiled, isn't anyone afraid their code will just
be relabeled and sold by someone else?

Without variable names and code comments code is rather useless. When
using an obfuscator, most of the code is rather /worthless/.

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/tools/>
-> "Obfuscators"

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Koorb,

Since code can be decompiled, isn't anyone afraid their code will just
be relabeled and sold by someone else?

Exactly since code can be decompiled (from the start of distributing it), a
lot of people are afraid that their code will be relabelled and sold by
someone else (however that makes no sense as you write it, than you can just
copy it, you have to change as least the name).



However only protecting the code is one thing, in my idea when you really
want that, is more important to protect the intellectual original ideas,
however most of us are just using tools to make software that we have seen
somewhere else and tailor that to our needs, and therefore we can not say it
was our idea. (Only colouring a button red is not an original idea)

Luckily is most software as well only an idea from a predecessor from which
is taken an idea and only improved.

One of those places (from a lot) where we get our ideas are newsgroups.

See for the rest the message from Herfried,

Just my thought,

Cor

 

[Brian Henry]

just to let you know any code at all can be decompiled... it's just how hard
did you make it to decompile (obsfucate)