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Old 09-01-2006, 09:50 AM
Matt L Matt L is offline
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Originally Posted by Emmerich View Post
you can decompile any program to get back to its source so just because its compiled does not mean anything is hidden.
You can decompile a program down to "a" source. Not "its" source. It certainly won't be very readable, and that's assuming that only an optimizer was used in the compiler back-end. Consider if they use an obfuscator.

It's not impossible to deciper such things, but it's not easy at all. Since there's a lead time for this (say, from the software release date until the election), making it hard is enough.
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