On 2015-09-15, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On 2015-09-15, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jondy Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Pyarmor is dedicated to users who create their applications, components,
>>>> scripts or any file with the help of the Python programming language. You
>>>> may use this application to encrypt the files, in order to protect their
>>>> content and your intellectual property, by encoding the scripts.
>>>>
>>>> The program allows you to encrypt files, but to also open and run
>>>> them as if no protection was applied.
>>>
>>> If they can be run as if no protection had been applied, that
>>> presumably means the loader is capable of decrypting them, right? So
>>> what's to stop anyone from reading the loader, using it to decrypt
>>> the actual code, and running it?
>>
>> I rather expect the answer to that questions is "laziness".
>>
>> It's like the lock on my front door. It's not going to stop anybody
>> who really wants to get in, but it will prevent the idle curious from
>> wandering in and messing about with my stuff.
>
> Maybe. It seems more like having a lock on your front door, with the
> key permanently inside it. But maybe that's just me.
I you may be underestimating the laziness and overestimating the
cleverness of most people. ;)
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