>> MP0werd:If I understand the engine,
>> we can save the compiled code
>> and not the plaintext representation,
>> but like JAVA, even this could
>> be reverse engineered, and plus, hiding code goes
>> against everything open source stands for.
>
>Alain: Nothing is full-proof. I suspected as much, but
>it is not necessarily the type of protection that I
>was talking about. I was mainly responding to the
>threat of the merryxmas-antibody variety that
>subversively changes your home stack script. The
>dreaded runtime-code-changes threat, under another
>guise.
>
MP0werd: Even with compiled code, viruses can be made. For example, there's a
JAVA virus named strange brew. It works by inserting it's own bytecodes into
another java application, however in all honesty, such a virus is useless
with the restrictions imposed on applets over the internet. Unfortunately, I
can't find the web site containing the documention written by the creators of
Strange Brew.
