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The initial idea was to make your life simpler by parsing JSON instead of HTML. Now we are decompiling binaries. Somewhere on the way, we got lost.
by sametmax 10y ago
The initial idea was to make your life simpler by parsing JSON instead of HTML. Now we are decompiling binaries. Somewhere on the way, we got lost.
- diminoten 10y agoOnce you do the one-time work of pulling out the key, you can just add something like, "secret_key=foobar" to your requests, and you're back to happily parsing JSON. If they keep changing it up, I'm sure you could automate the decompiling process. The reality is that this technique is security by obscurity at its core, and is therefore never going to succeed.
- charlesdm 10y agoSkype is probably one example where it took developers 10+ years to figure out how the app worked.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoDid it take that long to do it or did it take that long for someone to care to do it? I mean, it's Skype.
- bigiain 10y agoThe story of every IT project ever...