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Looks like this deals with vanilla electron not using any of the available ways of protecting the source
by throwaway290 3y ago
Looks like this deals with vanilla electron not using any of the available ways of protecting the source
- bertman 3y agoWhy would they protect the source? https://github.com/jgraph/drawio https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
- throwaway290 3y agoThe article posted on Hacker News is called "Cracking Electron Apps Open". The article deals with none of the libs developed to make it hard to crack open Electron apps. So it feels like clickbait and perhaps this will save someone a click.
- bdcravens 3y agoMany of those ways just obfuscate the source or encrypt some files; they don't prevent the Electron packaging format from being opened. While that reduces most of the reasons for "cracking" the app open, there's still often useful information to be gleamed by doing so.
- throwaway290 3y agoEntirely useless distinction. Although if for you "crack open an app" can mean "see a bunch of opaque blobs" then sure.