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Have you ever heard of the obfuscated C contest? Even with the code in front of your face and looking innocent it's hard to see what it does. When you only hav

Have you ever heard of the obfuscated C contest? Even with the code in front of your face and looking innocent it's hard to see what it does. When you only have decompiled assembly, obfuscation is much easier.

tptacek 10y ago
At the binary level, obfuscation is powerful but obvious. Is iOS WhatsApp meaningfully obfuscated?
- tedunangst 10y ago
  Considering iOS forbids self modifying code, lots of tricks aren't even available.
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- akvadrako 10y ago
  You are claiming that it would be easier to detect the obfuscation from the Obfuscated C Contest with only the binary and no access to the source code? That is logically wrong - otherwise people would simply compile the source before looking for the bad intentions. Having the source makes detection of backdoors strictly easier. Nothing you've said provides any evidence to the contrary.