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28 Jul 2024 10:23:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A programmer's etymology  
From: clipka
Date: 24 Jul 2014 03:33:21
Message: <53d0b6c1$1@news.povray.org>
Am 24.07.2014 09:07, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On 24/07/2014 06:06 AM, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> automated code obfuscation system we run our code through
>>
>> I think this is the real WTF.
>
> The idea is to make it less trivial to reverse-engineer our code and
> steal all our secrets.
...
> Really, if you want to copy our product, it would be quicker to look at
> what it does and write your own one from scratch than to try to figure
> out how ours works internally. The most likely scenario is somebody
> wanting to reverse-engineer our stuff just to disable the license checks.

That, most probably.

> All the obfuscater actually does is to take every class and rename all
> it's methods to A(), B(), C(), etc. And insert lots of complicated flow
> control into the method's actual code. It appears in this instance, it
> accidentally (!!) renamed two events to the same thing. Oops...

I guess it's plenty of fun to wade through obfuscated code to figure out 
exactly how the hell the 'fuscator fucked it up...


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