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- From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Preventing Script Inspections
- Message-ID: <jpugh-180892214946@90.20.3.212>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 04:53:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.163454.4245@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.163454.4245@ncar.ucar.edu>, urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu
- (Art Urban (PROFS)) wrote:
- >
- > Is there a way to *permanently* prevent a user from getting at *any*
- > of the scripts in my stack? I looked at the Protect Stack... window, but
- > the explanations I have of these options, do not seem to protect my scripts
- > from inspection/modification. Can't I just freeze the stack at the Browse
- > level, without the user setting the userlevel to 5?
-
- No, there is no way. Scripts are stored as plain text, so dumping the stack
- will reveal them, regardless of the protection level.
-
- You can set the Protect Stack dialog to browsing, but this is easily
- bypassed. The only real way to prevent script inspection is to compile the
- scripts with CompileIt or C or Pascal.
-
- Jon
-