---
title: "Hijacking .NET Volume 2: Protecting your Code"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/8/hijacking-net-volume-2-protecting-your-code.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/8/hijacking-net-volume-2-protecting-your-code.html"
published: "2003-11-08T20:29:00"
updated: "2003-11-08T20:29:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Hijacking .NET Volume 2 “ Dan Appleman's latest eBook covers the security implications of using reflection to access private members in an assembly, and about the design patterns and specific methods you can use to…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Hijacking .NET Volume 2: Protecting your Code

By Roy Osherove November 8, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 8, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[**Hijacking .NET Volume 2**](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CDS9Z/iserializable-20)

“_Dan Appleman's [latest eBook](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CDS9Z/iserializable-20) covers the security implications of using reflection to access private members in an assembly, and about the design patterns and specific methods you can use to prevent others from using these techniques on your assemblies”_

\[.[NetWire](http://www.dotnetwire.com/)\]

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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