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Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering?

Posted by michael on from the not-as-think-as-you-easy-it-is dept.

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. Third Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I am the FAIL IT

  2. Re:Enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So you code in Perl too, eh?

    Never underestimate teh powar of teh PHP!!!!1

    A friend needed something to count the number of commas in a textfile, so I wrote him the following console script. OCR, anyone?

    Evil vile perverted PHP script deleted due to Slashdot facism. Was it trying to protect the sanity of young innocent proto-nerds?

    Oh, and Slashdot says "Please use fewer 'junk' characters." That's the nastiest thing anyone's ever said about my programming! I'm really hurt! *Sniff!*

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    Bah. Needs more non-nonsensical stuff.

    "Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said." If anyone's duplicating my code, I pity them, poor deluded fools. Plus, does this rule mean I have to read everything at a threshold of -1? Including all the goat porn? I'm feeling queasy already. Make it stop!

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    Still too many junk characters? Man, that hurts. I know Slash was written in Perl, but that doesn't mean it has to take it out on us enlightened individuals who program indecipherable gibberish in other, saner languages. Heh.

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    Christ, Slashdot, what do you want? Blood? If you don't like my programming, just say!

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    Okay, okay! I admit it! I learned to program in BASICA in DOS! Yes, I know it shows. GW-BASIC was just a pipe-dream for me, and the holiness of the line-number-free QBASIC was a distant vision in the distance. But I repent! I shall never use another GOTO, VARPTR, DEF SEG or POKE again! Just let me post!

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    Bastard.

    You really don't like my program, do you? Well, I'll beat you! I'll delete it! And upload it here!

  3. Re:do what i do by 74nova · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that's just so abnormal it confuses people, it doesnt actually obscure anything unless you comment incorrect information.

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    use your turn signal! you people act like it's divulging information to the enemy
  4. Re:do what i do by SpaceRook · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? You mean most people don't know what dwbzlsptlzdbkCount is?

  5. Re:do what i do by Metasquares · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hungarian notation is just a guideline for naming variables, functions, etc. It doesn't mean "program in Hungarian" :)

  6. Re:do what i do by GeckoX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Read the post he was responding to and you just might get it.

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