Re: A89: AU 2.00 "bug" explanations


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Re: A89: AU 2.00 "bug" explanations




Yes No Kidding. I can rip a full asm source out of any program in less than
1 minute.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Mueller <nlmueller@students.wisc.edu>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: A89: AU 2.00 "bug" explanations


>
>>- I think that we'll not be able to release any source code to explain how
>>we did it in ArchUtil. The reasons are simples; TI will fix his lack of
>>security; Some "dumb asses" will make virus and/or corrupt their ROM; It
>>is not indispensable to program.
>
>Security based on secrecy is no security at all.  It would take less then 5
>minutes for someone to run AU through a decompiler and get the complete
>source code (decompiling works much better in asm then in C).  The inner
>workings of your program are very easy to access and if that's all someone
>needs to create a virus, then the issue should be reported to TI, along
>with the example code.  This is standard pratice in the computer industry
>and it's that way for a reason.
>
> --Nate
>
>