Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS

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From: Charles Dye
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:28

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In article <DMnpHE.EKy@cyf-kr.edu.pl>,
   kravietz@pipeta.chemia.pk.edu.pl (Pawel Krawczyk) wrote:
>On <9 Feb 1996 15:30:41 GMT> Charles Dye (raster@indirect.com) wrote:
>
>> >the version checks. (Does Microsoft want to encourage hacking of their 
>> >programs?) I don't think they've posted these programs for Win95 yet.
>> Of course they don't.  That's why they PKlite stuff, as well; the actual
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Is it any protection? IMHO no (but maybe In M$ Opinion is).  

It's what's called "security through obscurity."  It will stop the average
13-year-old poking around with debug, but won't even slow down an
experienced hacker.

raster@indirect.com

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From: raster@indirect.com (Charles Dye)
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Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
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