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Javascript can be obfuscated too. What is the difference?
by clktmr 7y ago
Javascript can be obfuscated too. What is the difference?
- xg15 7y agoWell, someone went to the trouble of writing a Rust binary just to hide the game code, when they could have used standard JS obfuscation instead. This suggests to me that WASM has some properties that make reverse-engeneering harder than obfuscated JS could do alone. This would give some validity to the fears of WASM becoming the "new Flash" that were voiced when it was still in development.
- ReverseCold 7y ago> new Flash ... but Flash was easy to reverse too, just download the .swf file and use one of many tools to reverse engineer it. It's probably why there are so many "hacked" flash games available if you search for them.
- Arbalest 7y agoI never really found any of those tools. Granted I could have looked harder. Perhaps I was looking in the open source world too much and they usually came as binaries?
- tetris11 7y agohttps://github.com/AndreyMiloserdov/jpexs-flash-decompiler https://github.com/AndreyMiloserdov/jpexs-flash-decompiler
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- castwide 7y agoTo be fair, they probably have more practical reasons for using Rust than simply to obfuscate the code.
- paulddraper 7y agoYeah, it would seem that JS can be sufficiently obfuscated already.