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Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering?

ptolemu writes "Cringely's latest article discusses a new obfuscation technique currently being researched called PSCP (Program State Code Protection). An informative read that concludes with some interesting insight on the software giants that heavily depend on this kind of technology."

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  1. Re:do what i do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey, just call me, I'll get what you want.
    Your Hungarian friend
    (Other famous Hungarians: the founder of Intel, and George Soros, you know, the guy who screwd the British currency and is working hard to get Mr. Bush to the white space out of the White Office.)

  2. Re:Enough by carlmenezes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nah, he probably uses LISP.

    --
    Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
  3. Just hire bad coders! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There are plenty of them. They write spehgetti crap so horrible that nobody would WANT to reverse engineer it.

  4. Re:Won't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "...would make it REALLY easy for closed source applications to conceal swiped GPL code..."

    If there was any good GPL code, then maybe software companies would have some competition from that genre. As it is though realistically, almost all of the "good stuff" is proprietary and hasn't seen the light of day outside of the owning companies. My point: "stealing" GPL code is a non-issue because almost no one with any decent development capability wants it.

  5. Re:do what i do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    god you are a tard

  6. Re:do what i do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Umm, I DID read it. I think you're the one that didn't get it, tardhat. Try again.

  7. You found M$'s secret! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You hit the nail on the head!

    Microsoft was getting so jealous that Linux was more stable than its OS, they released their source code in an attempt to poison the Linux community!

    A few lines of Microsoft source code in any linux program would be an instant segfault.