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davexunit on Oct 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables

The user already doesn't have the source. Obfuscating the binary is just hostile.

jamesrom on Oct 16, 2017 [–]

No, that's my point.

You can inspect the code running on your machine. The machine code.

At what level should one expect it's user to understand the code running on one's machine? If I have you the source to my application in brainfuck, would that suffice?

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