[Zope] Code protection in Zope

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:25:14PM -0600, Celula Research wrote:
> Now that the issue has come up...
> 
> What would be a good way to protect code in Zope, both in straight
> Python code in the file system -Products/Extensions- 

This is a FAQ on comp.lang.python.  The general consensus
is that you can't, but nobody really cares ;-)
pyc and pyo files require significant
work to convert back to anything like human-readable python source,
but anyone who's determined enough code eventually do it.
This is not unique to python.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-April/000666.html

> and dtml/tal ?

make sure your users don't have unnecessary permissions,
notably "View Management Screens".

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