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Business people demand it to protect intellectual property without realizing the ease of reversing it / wanting to say they're doing something to protect IP tha
by whatshisface 4y ago
Business people demand it to protect intellectual property without realizing the ease of reversing it / wanting to say they're doing something to protect IP that their own superior will not realize doesn't help. It is making the best of an impossible situation, the paradox of sending your code to every single customer for them to run it while also wishing nobody could see it.
The more aggressive they make patent law the less useful it seems to become for protecting any actual investment, so here we are, clinging to wooden totems...
- iratewizard 4y agoWith how mediocre most developers today are, obfuscation is enough.
- whatshisface 4y agoToo mediocre to type "deobsfucate" into Google? The first result is a deobsfucator. https://deobfuscate.io/ https://deobfuscate.io/
- iratewizard 4y agoToo mediocre to read deobfuscated JavaScript, yes. Many such cases.
- edflsafoiewq 4y agoCan't tell if you mean they can't deobfuscate, or that their code isn't worth the effort of deobfuscating.
- throwntoday 4y agoProbably both
- jollybean 4y agoIt's a supply demand thing. If you publish your code on github, it's more likely to be compromised than if it's just in the webapp, very well obfuscated. A sufficiently motivated actor will break it, and frankly break almost anything else, so it's a game of probabilities etc.. Obfuscation probably does make sense so long as it's not obviously getting in the way of dev. and, with the key understanding that 'it can be broken'. Physical security at most companies can be thwarted with enough effort, it doesn't mean we don't do it.