"Decompile" Windows RR application

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/4/05 12:44 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Hmmmm.
> 
> I'm glad this worked but does the fact that it is so (relatively)  easy 
> and straightforward to decompile a compiled application bother  anyone 
> in terms of marketability issues for Rev?
> 
> Or am I just overly paranoid?

I'll let a shrink decide that. ;) But this isn't really any different 
than anything else in Rev. If the app is not passworded, you can read 
all the scripts in a text editor. If it is, then you can't. If someone 
decompiles the app back to a stack and it is passworded, the scripts are 
still protected.

That said, I wrote my own decompiler about 5 years ago. I kept the 
information strictly to myself. It was necessary because a client had 18 
apps for me to work on, which they owned, but had lost the source 
stacks. I had to decompile.

I suspect other people may have written their own too in the past, but 
we all kept the information private. When someone released the script to 
the public I was very disappointed. So if it is paranoia, I guess it is 
shared. Even though when I think about it rationally I don't see much to 
worry about, I think it was a mistake.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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