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How is this different from closed source software, which constitutes the overwhelming majority of the industry?
by Santosh83 5y ago
How is this different from closed source software, which constitutes the overwhelming majority of the industry?
- Ladlehoe 5y ago"Closed source" is a pretty poor analogy, since regular executables can be disassembled or even decompiled. Reversing is a big field. DRM and obfuscation to prevent that reversing is a better analogy. How is it different from that? It isn't, really.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoIt's possible to reverse engineer closed source software. I have done it. Anti-debugging is a whole new level of obnoxiousness. Imagine a proprietary executable that scans your memory for debuggers and similar tools and then kills them or kills itself to make it harder for you. They use your own computer to subvert you.
- ipaddr 5y agoBeen around for awhile they are called viruses.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoYeah but that's malware. It's expected in those cases. We should not tolerate these hostile actions from normal software.
- hobs 5y agoVideo game DRM also does this, so we see it in commercial software.
- vlovich123 5y agoSkype does it too (or did for a long time - not sure about the current state).