From: Steffen N. <sne...@ip...> - 2009-07-01 07:42:20
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On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:18 -0500, Coleman, Michael wrote: ... > I would argue that the possibility of writing trivial programs that read > peak data is also a reason, perhaps a more important one. Having the peaks > encoded does make it a bit harder to jump in and start doing something with > them. I'd say that was true before the web and Open Source stuff was all over the place. Googl'ing for "decrypt base64 <yourfavoritelanguage>" will almost always yield a 1-3 liner you can get inspiration from, including zip'ing the data. Funny, one of the top ranks for php gives you excerpt from a malware script: http://justin.madirish.net/node/321 Yours, Steffen -- IPB Halle AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik Dr. Steffen Neumann http://www.IPB-Halle.DE Weinberg 3 http://msbi.bic-gh.de 06120 Halle Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470 +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0 sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409 |