> I searched through the mailing list archives and came up with a ton of
> discussion on security, and I know it's been covered several times over
the
> past few years, but I can't seem to nail down exactly how secure the
16F87x
> series chips actually are.  A lot of the past discussion has been over
> non-flash chips, or earlier F84 versions.
>
> Would anyone have any reservations about using these chips in production
> products?

I don't, because code protection is very rarely an issue.  Even if you
handed a competitor all the binary code on a silver platter, it would
usually not be much good to them.  It would only be of use in an exact copy
of your product, or would cost a significant effort to dissasemble and
reverse engineer.  It would usually be cheaper to create their own version.

I can see cases where code protection could be an issue, but it would have
to be a very high volume low margin product where piracy is a realy threat.


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