<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Fedor Khod'kov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fedor76@istra.ru">fedor76@istra.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Radosław Nadstawny <<a href="mailto:radoslaw.nadstawny@o2.pl">radoslaw.nadstawny@o2.pl</a>> writes:<br>
> I'd disagree. Terms like "human readable" and "machine readable" are<br>
> inventions of lawyers and have little or no true meaning. Every program<br>
> can be read and understood by human even in it's binary form. It just<br>
> requires some skills. Sure, binary form is harder to comprehend than<br>
> source code, but not impossible. Saying that computer program in binary<br>
> form is not human readable is like saying that books in Chinese are not<br>
> human readable, and because of this you can't compare them to books in<br>
> English.<br>
<br>
</div>There are learning courses in Chinese; there are also translators who<br>
can translate a book from Chinese to English or any other language;<br>
probably, in the future software translators will be able to produce<br>
adequate translations from Chinese automatically. So, books in Chinese<br>
are human-readable.<br>
<br>
On the contrary, there are no learning courses on reading binary form of<br>
software and no translators (either specially trained human or special<br>
software) exist. Reverse-engineering is not routine activity. That<br>
means software in binary form isn't human-readable.</blockquote><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler">Decompilers</a> exist, as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversing:_Secrets_of_Reverse_Engineering">at least one textbook</a> on reverse engineering.</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Fedor.<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">____________________________________________________<br>
Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>
<a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general" target="_blank">http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>