I am looking at publishing websites via VS. One thing I am unclear about is
security. These are probably stupid questions...

Our network people are really cagey about opening up FTP on the server. I
think the bosses have a fear of someone logging on a stealing all the source
code so we have some really ridiculous ways of deploying things. So couple
of questions:

The precompiled code - is it really easy to reverse engineer?
The http route - how secure is this. How do you prevent people from
capturing the upload, do you need to do it over an SSL line or does VS take
care of that.
Would there be a way of making the deployment process one way. You can
upload but you can't download.
And this is really stupid but how do you secure it so only certain people
can deploy. I don't see that in the tutorials.

Regards, Chris.