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Some people don't realise their apps can be decompiled, it's not a question of sanity.
by Kudos 13y ago
Some people don't realise their apps can be decompiled, it's not a question of sanity.
- nknighthb 13y agoI don't think I've ever encountered that particular illusion in anyone making a living off writing compiled code, only very new developers and non-engineer managers. It's one of the few securityish things that seems to be successfully beaten into everyone's head pretty early on. (And more often than not, they get there all by themselves -- such people usually appear on my radar asking questions showing they've figured out for themselves that it's a bad idea, they just need help turning that knowledge into practice.)
- saurik 13y agoI give talks at development conferences where I mostly blow people's minds by showing how easy it is to pull information out of binaries (both statically and dynamically); there are always tons of questions from the audience afterwards about "but we do X? doesn't that make us safe?", so I have to sit there shooting down a ton of silly ways of obfuscating their data, showing how each one could be defeated, but it "clicks" for everyone that there is no safe way to do this.