On Thursday 09 August 2007 11:30, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:42:19PM +0200, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
> >> the problem here is that vendors of appliances don't want people to
> >> spider their codes. this is a fact - it is not the idea of open
> >> source to do so but bloody reality. in addition to that people are
> >> not willing to code everything in C just to hide.
> >
> > Well, then, they're out of luck.
>
> This whole thread can be summed up as: plpgsql is an interpretive
> language, not a compiled on.
>
> You can and do see the source, just like perl, ruby, python, bash etc...
>
> If you don't like it, don't use it and use C instead.
>
> :)
>
> Keep in mind that the obfuscation techniques that can be used by python
> and perl are all reversible.
>
Hmm.... I wonder if you could wire plphp through something like Zend Gaurd?
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Robert Treat
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