On Jun 3, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Ben Coman wrote:
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> Ultimately at that level - there is no security. This only raises the level
> of difficulty by requiring a certain conjunction of skill, motivation and
> ethics. It is no worse than the same attack targetted at option (3.).
> However there is now some incentive for commercial companies to invest the
> the effort into releasing an App to execute on top of an otherwise
> open-source platform. The advantage is that it if ten plugins were required
> to do proprietary calculations on one dataset and integrate the results into
> a single screen, then running within the one image seems more elegant than
> ten images running on ten VMs.
How do people do it with Java? Java .jar files are as easy to decompile as
Smalltalk bytecode...
Marcus
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