Can the FileOpen technology be defeated?
A9. Yes, almost surely. We are not trying to win any anti-hacker prizes. FileOpen is an ordinary, commercial product for ordinary, commercial-level rights management. Defeating it is merely dishonest, not heroic. You might just as well go into a bookstore and steal a copy of the Numerical Recipes book. It is dishonest either way. If too many of our books are stolen, then bookstores won’t carry them. If too many Numerical Recipes files are circulated as “warez”, then our publishers will never allow us to do another electronic version, or even improve or correct the current one.
