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Good Obfuscation, Bad Code
Chris Wysopal, 2009-04-17

Antivirus analysts and security testers have to deal with a fundamental question every day: Is obfuscated code good or bad?

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Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-18
Chris (2 replies)
Re: Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-20
Kyle Quest
Re: Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-05-29
Anthony Lai, Hong Kong
Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-22
Anonymous
Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-23
TimD (1 replies)
Re: Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-26
Chris Wysopal
Good Obfuscation, Bad Code 2009-04-27
Jack
"Legitimate reasons exist for doing this ... or to hide behavior the user might not appreciate."

I contest that software doing anything that I do not want is not legitimate.

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