Re: Two questions

rbt wrote: 
Peter Hansen wrote:

Philosophy not entirely aside, you should note that object code in any language can "easily" be reverse-engineered in the same way, with the only difference being the degree of ease involved. If the code is worth enough to someone that they are willing to risk violating your license terms, they *will* be able to recover enough source code (whether it was Python, C, or assembly) to do what they need.


Don't intend to hijack this thread, but this bit interests me. I know several accomplished C/assembly programmers who have told me that reverse engineering object code from either of these two languages is anything but trivial. Yet, I *hear* and *read* the opposite all of the time. Can anyone actually demonstrate a decompile that mirrors the original source? 

I give you one example: Online/Multiplayer GTA 3 or 4
(http://gta3mta.tk/)

A C-App never intended to work that way - but skillfully patched so that it works! And that even only as OSS - no commercial interest (and thus funding). So I day Peter's statement has full validity - it's a question of interest.

Diez
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