Re: Protecting Source code of a perl script

From: Bill (wherrera_at_lynxview.com)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: 21 Nov 2003 09:19:11 -0800

Ben Morrow <usenet@morrow.me.uk> wrote in message news:<bpku88$4q8$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>...
> > Actually this is a very frequent scenario.
> > Or would you trust your personal medical files to the admin of the hospital
> > computer?
>
> I would (implicitly) trust him not to look at them unless it was
> strictly necessary. Or I would trust the hospital to sack him if he
> did.

This is actually a situation where obscurity is useful, not to keep
away truly prying eyes, but to keep from accidental exposure of
confidential data. There is a reason that changing rooms and shower
stalls have doors or curtains, even if they do not lock :). I keep
some data on a public server encrypted, even though a determined
administrator could crack the encryption with only a day's work. (A
non-administrator could not crack it without years of work, we hope.)

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