Isn't the time for the generous qualifiers long past? Such, often, can, our protection, unfortunately, skepticism... There is a good track record by now. Something like:
"under the guise of protecting trade secrets and swear words in the code, the code encryption actually protects crappy code stuffed with vulnerabilities (i.e. future entry points available to the right friends and foes) and backdoors (some forgotten and some very much not)". And in this case "future" was a while ago.
"under the guise of protecting trade secrets and swear words in the code, the code encryption actually protects crappy code stuffed with vulnerabilities (i.e. future entry points available to the right friends and foes) and backdoors (some forgotten and some very much not)". And in this case "future" was a while ago.