From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T22:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: A general doubt

Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
  > It's a nonsensical scenario. WHY would some intruder do this, when he
> can already do whatever he wants with the system? And if he has only
> user-level access, he won't be able to change any correctly installed
> program, no matter what language it's written in.

Even if the Ruby program could be encrypted or obfuscated, they could 
just modify the Ruby interpreter itself to do whatever it is they want 
to do.  There just isn't a solution, even with compiled languages.  Like 
I said before, even using a compiled language or obfuscation, all you've 
done is raise the bar a little.

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