Re: Wrap (obfuscate) code

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Aaron Bono" <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com>
Cc: rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com, rdeleonp(at)yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Wrap (obfuscate) code
Date: 2006-07-04 22:53:49
Message-ID: 36e682920607041553g28cc72b5p2a0dc5eec26a357a@mail.gmail.com
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On 7/4/06, Jonah H. Harris <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Aaron Bono <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com> wrote:
> > I don't see how PostgreSQL being open source will stop obfuscation of the
> > PL/pgSQL from being possible.

Oh, and I forgot to add, obfuscation is lame and doesn't really work.
Anyone with a good amount of compiler knowledge can easily get past
obfuscated code. But hey, if it makes you feel like you've protected
yourself, by all means... obfuscate away :)

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