Subject:      Re: java doomed by reverse engineering?
From:         darin@connectnet1.connectnet.com (Darin Johnson)
Date:         1997/02/12
Message-ID:   
Newsgroups:   comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security

>I fear that this inherent weakness will discourage a lot of
>people from switching to java. Pity!!

People can reverse engineer native code as well.  Big deal.  If
someone is writing a license manager would break just because of
reverse engineering, they need to redesign it.  Sure, native code will
slow down the casual nemesis, but it won't phase a cracker that wants
to cause real damage.

Security through obscurity ALWAYS fails.

--
Darin Johnson
darin@connectnet.com