> Caleb's. It could take days to unravel the code by > hand versus the few > minutes needed to send it out to www.srs4uv.com.
>From one horror story I read on the site about a programmer that had sabotaged source code: "The company used the SRS on the object code they were running. In addition, they compiled the suspect source code and used the SRS on that set. By comparing the two source code result sets they figured out which programs had been sabotaged." Why not simply compare the binaries ? Unix has a small program called: "cmp" that can compare two files and Windows has "comp". You can tell which ones have been changed that way. You can also know when the files were last compiled by looking at the dates with ls -al on the binary. Still I think the decompiler can be a useful tool. I've worked with a client who purchased a package some years back and they only have the binaries. If the supplier ever goes out of business they are in trouble. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
