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Code obfuscation is idiotic and pointless no matter what form it takes, but this example is particularly egregious. This accomplishes little more than degrading
by cosmojg 7y ago
Code obfuscation is idiotic and pointless no matter what form it takes, but this example is particularly egregious. This accomplishes little more than degrading performance across the board for the very real end user (bye bye JIT optimizations) while requiring some purely hypothetical reverse engineer to write one additional script before (gasp) reading the code.
I'm genuinely curious how much time and money was wasted on this imbecilic venture.
- garganzol 7y agoObfuscation may seem a weird topic nowadays but only because it is lagging behind conventional data encryption. Once it achieves more fundamental results the perception will likely change.
- saagarjha 7y agoObfuscation provides no concrete guarantees on being able to prevent reverse engineering, as encryption does.