Decompile Jobs in Freelance

[Jefferson Judge Metha]

several months ago I got to know how a decompiled code looks like after I got banned. So I have just been curious on to Jobs that I see in the freelance section with statements 

Convert ex4 to mq4

 and also on the question that do the freelance moderators view files sent via zip files as I have Just seen one that has 

gd_156[]

How long will it take for them to see it, and is lets suppose that a decompile Job has  been posted and it is executed in a super short time. will the freelance moderators ban the involved parties, in such a situation what happens to the funds. 

Hence I think it is imperative that metaquotes install software/file scanner that detects if there is a decompiled file that  has been uploaded to the system. 
As I remember I was a victim of lack of knowledge. 

 

[Keith Watford]

When someone asks for decompilation or for work with decompiled files, the developers click the complaint button. This alerts admin and they will delete the job and probably ban the person. If a job has been completed in the meantime they will probably ban the developer as well. No idea what would happen to the funds.

[Marco vd Heijden]

I agree and i have also proposed to implement such scanner that scans the uploads for decompiled code long time ago.

However nothing came from this and i decided to just stop taking on freelance orders altogether. 

The problem in my case was that i would get up and then i would quickly respond to four or five jobs by looking over the job descriptions.

So i never actually looked at the attached code because why bother if you are not sure that you are going to be selected int he first place.

I was going to do it when selected and then I would probably end up writing new code from scratch anyway.

In this case it's possible to get caught up in a job where a customer has posted decompiled code and the developer risks getting banned from freelance service.

It doesn't even have to have Convert ex4 to mq4 in the job description because the attached code many times contains decompiled code, which you can only discover by downloading and analyzing the code.

So this is a fight that you simply can not win, and i agree that the responsibility is skewed towards the wrong side of the table.

On another note, i feel that there should not even be decompiled code out there to start with, because whenever this surfaces it means that the implemented security has failed at protecting (y)our code.

And that is something they simply can not blame on someone else for, other then themselves.

[Keith Watford]

Marco vd Heijden:

I agree and i have also proposed to implement such scanner that scans the uploads for decompiled code long time ago.

It may be that I remember wrongly, but I am sure that such a scanner was part of the compiler once.

I seem to remember that if you tried to compile decompiled code, it would not compile.

[Marco vd Heijden]

Keith Watford:

It may be that I remember wrongly, but I am sure that such a scanner was part of the compiler once.

I seem to remember that if you tried to compile decompiled code, it would not compile.

Very interesting Keith i never knew or seen this feature and i wonder why it was removed.

In the case of freelance it is not hard to intercept jobs with attached decompiled code because a script that quickly scans over the variable names will reveal it in most if not all cases, and then such jobs should be put in quarantine for further inspection before ever reaching the freelance service job pool.

[Keith Watford]

Marco vd Heijden:

Very interesting Keith i never knew or seen this feature and i wonder why it was removed.

Link

Yes, very strange. Seems that it was introduced in build 509 and then removed in 600!

[Sergey Golubev]

Freelance, decompilation, the rules, examples of the decompiled code:
https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/203200

[Jefferson Judge Metha]

Look at this hidden decompile job here

[Sergey Golubev]

Jefferson Metha:
Look at this hidden decompile job here

Thanks for the link. I will report to the admins (at least one indicator in attachment was fully decompiled, and the others are "improved/hidden" decompiled.

[Jefferson Judge Metha]

https://www.mql5.com/en/job/112394

Danother one

[Sergey Golubev]

Jefferson Metha:

https://www.mql5.com/en/job/112394

Danother one

Already reported by other moderator.