Obscurity has never been a major hindrance to people who want to break security, but it does hinder people who want to make the security better. The ability to

Obscurity has never been a major hindrance to people who want to break security, but it does hinder people who want to make the security better. The ability to run the code, even in binary form, and produce an output from an input negates any possible benefit from obscurity. It _will_ be broken. Denying researchers access just means that break will happen faster, and past obfuscations are more likely to be reversible. It does nothing good.