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I can't help but wonder if it's more of a "a little from Column A, a little from Column B" scenario. There's no doubt they have skilled security staff, but - a
by zebraflask 6y ago
I can't help but wonder if it's more of a "a little from Column A, a little from Column B" scenario.
There's no doubt they have skilled security staff, but - as a company overall - they also grew very quickly.
How much of that obfuscation is intentional and how much might just be old code from a few years ago that nobody got around to removing? Before it was passed through obfuscation.
- 3eed 6y agoThe vast majority of these obfuscations (maybe except for the scratch arguments one) are done as LLVM passes, so it's done post-code writing, writing code like this would be unreadable and unmaintainable.
- xuki 6y agoI'd say they make it a priority to keep people from tampering with their code, and maybe maintaining the platform's integrity. They even ban people who use tweak on jailbroken iPhone/Android. I found these articles about avoid Snapchat detection a while ago, it's a cat and mouse game. https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-Android/ https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-Android/ https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-iOS/ https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-iOS/