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Does the obfuscation serve any real purpose in improving the security?

• mox1 12y ago
  It's similar to when malware authors pack and encode their stuff. At the end of the day, it does not stop a determined individual from reverse engineering the code (and then publishing the technique). BUT it does make it more difficult to understand, work with, etc. It simply reduces the number of individuals who have the skills necessary to follow everything though. It will deter the less skilled people from attempting to "hack" the system....
  • zamalek 12y ago
    > It will deter the less skilled people from attempting to "hack" the system.... ... especially if slight changes are made. Google could change the smallest thing and run the lot back through their mangler and the attacker would have to go through the process of unobfuscating it all over again.
    • coldcode 12y ago
      Creating an ever increasing war of mangler vs demangler.
      • yincrash 12y ago
        Which is exactly the case with regular captchas except now this is less annoying for real human users.
    • instakill 12y ago
      Your username is the slang name for Carling Black Label beer in South Africa :)
      • zamalek 12y ago
        Exactly, it's good beer :)