Re: Protecting Source code of a perl script

ctcgag_at_hotmail.com
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: 21 Nov 2003 21:49:06 GMT

"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ctcgag@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Is the administrator of the application also the administrator of the
> > machine on which the application runs? How can an application be
> > considered secure if you don't trust the person who is in charge of
> > it?
>
> Actually this is a very frequent scenario.
> Or would you trust your personal medical files to the admin of the
> hospital computer?

Well, I'm pretty sure I'm already doing that, for some level of admin
(if not the OS admin, then the DBMS admin or the app admin).

Xho 

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