Re: security in programming

Well, nothing is secure, given North Korea has nuclear weapons. But that's not the question, really.

"Secure against what?"

If the curious can read your DBFs in Excel, they may gain information that you have a column named FooBar that holds integer values. If the significance of FooBar isn't obvious unless you have access to unencrypted source code, well, that might qualify as "secure enough."

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:

IMO if your data is in DBF files, it's not secure.

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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