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impenetrable images?



                       Subject:                               Time:2:41 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          impenetrable images?                   Date:9/21/1994

There have been a few recent postings that have asked how one goes about
getting rid of the Listener in application versions.  This is a serious
question for MCL developers who will distribute applications that contain
source code and data that they need to protect.  Generally, if I can somehow
get the Listener to appear, I can start snooping around.  Guessing the names
of functions or data objects usually isn't all that difficult.  Functions
might be reversed-engineered through testing, the contents of data objects
read directly.

If MCL is to be regarded as a serious development language, there needs to be
a standard way of making sure that Listeners cannot be dug up, re-incarnated,
or created anew.  What's the solution?