security through obscurity

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

> Let's assume they are correct in the estimation of 40 million lines of
> code.  Let's further assume that each line is fully 80 characters
> long.  40MM * 80 == 3.2E9 which is just over 3GB of storage (there's
> that order of magnitude).  Considering source code compresses fairly
> easily, I can certainly imagine a compression ratio of 5:1 to get down
> to a CD-rom sized 650MB.

That 40gb number probably also includes resource files, images, fonts, 
localizations, whatever else thats binary, not source.


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