There are ways, which take a little more effort when incorporated into the writing of the code, make reverse engineering difficult, if not impossible. This would be a wonderful text book example of why you need to scramble, and encrypt your source code when writing programs for the Government. I suspect, in the future, this will be standard operating procedure when writing any software for the government. Yeah, they screwed this company by not acting in good faith, but in the long run, they will probably not be able to do this again.
they screwed this company by not acting in good faith, but in the long run, they will probably not be able to do this again.
And as a taxpayer, you gotta love it - NOT.