No actually I don't give a shit what you do, but I will let people know that unless you adhere to my idea of what is secure that they should not use or pay for your software. I never said otherwise. I merely said the potential exists, and then explained how this potential can be greatly reduced. I am merely warning the people who may buy your product, that I would not consider it to be in their best interests to do so, as things currently stand. Except nobody who buys a simple python script like this is going to have the slightest clue if you are telling the truth or not. Why would I buy something that I could make myself in about ten minutes with Ruby? PS here is a neat link that talks about interpreted/compiled and handily discusses ruby and python. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/24558/is-python-interpreted-or-compiled