# Re: decompilation ?

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@eng.sun.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT)

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    Message-Id: <199904191913.MAA15084@shorter.eng.sun.com>

    Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: decompilation ?

    To: java-security@java.sun.com, luchobiazutti@hotmail.com

Any program can be reverse engineered. It's true that
it might be easier to reverse engineer Java than object
code, but fundamentally the problem exists for any program.

There are obfuscators out there that attempt to mangle
your program's symbols so that it can't be as easily
reverse engineered.

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