On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:00:59 -0500, geremy condra quoted Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.du...@gmail.com>:
>> BTW for people who are non-believers in something being worth stealing >> needing protection, need to read about the Skype client. Pardon me for breaking threading, but the original post has not come through to my provider, only the reply from Geremy. Many things are worth stealing and therefore need protection. In any case, reverse engineering software is not theft. And even if it were, keeping the source code secret is no barrier to a competent, determined attacker or investigator. Skype is a good example: despite the lack of source code and the secret protocol, analysts were able to discover that TOM-Skype sends personally identifiable information, encryption keys and private messages back to central servers. In my personal opinion, releasing closed source software is prima facie evidence that the software is or does something bad: leaking personal information, infringing somebody else's copyright or patent, or just being badly written. I'm not saying that every piece of closed source software is like that, but when you hide the source, the burden of proof is on you to prove that you're not hiding something unpleasant. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
