Being safe on the internet (was Re: Here we go again - ISP DPI, but is it interception?)

Roland Perry lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Thu Aug 12 10:49:46 BST 2010


In article <CB42DECB-06C1-4683-8BEE-59F24B50008C at batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> writes
>> I did that few times for DOS4 ! Although (as an OEM who wrote, with 
>>my own fair hand, a few customisations) I had the source code for 
>>several of the device drivers and utilities, I didn't for the main 
>>body of the product. The parts in question were written in Intel 
>>assembly code.
>
>Compilers were a lot simpler, though.   Fixing problems without the 
>source was easier when compilers generated fairly stereotyped code and 
>the object instruction sequence was closely related to the source 
>program.

But sticking assembly code through a disassember (whether that's a 
formal one, or in one's head) is very closely related.
-- 
Roland Perry



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