Comment by saghm

I don't think they did need to; the author mentioned this in one of the footnotes:

> I'm a little surprised that the source code was included as opposed to precompiled .class files to further obfuscate what's going on, but then again by this point, with the GPG encryption and all, I don't imagine the module team was focused on preventing me from meddling around as much as they were focused on getting a module out of the door