Yet during the CISC to RISC conversion a few companies made quite a bit of money decompiling code with
observability removed.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James
Lampert
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Observability (and yanking thereof)

My Fellow Geeks, Geekettes, and Gurus:

The whole point of yanking observability has, historically, been to make
it more difficult for intellectual property thieves to decompile our
products.

But does it, in the RISC era (and especially with "unobservable creation
data" left in for V6 compatibility), actually still buy us any
meaningful level of decompilation resistance?


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