On 2015-09-15, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> > wrote: >> On 2015-09-15, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.z...@gmail.com> 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. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this sexual at intercourse yet?? Is it, gmail.com huh, is it?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list