It's essentially an arms-race. For every anti-debugging or obfuscation technique there's a reverse engineer who is willing to do hard work to overcome it. It be

It's essentially an arms-race. For every anti-debugging or obfuscation technique there's a reverse engineer who is willing to do hard work to overcome it. It becomes a kind of psychological warfare-- trying to wear-down the reverse enginner to make the give up. If this kind of thing interests you check out 4AM's Apple II cracks. He's removing the copy protection on old software so the techniques aren't directly applicable to current machines, but there's a font of creativity in the code he's reverse engineering. https://twitter.com/a2_4am https://twitter.com/a2_4am