alt Hacker NewsLLMs have truly killed obfuscation. It only worked previously by making things extremely tedious but AI doesn't care about that.
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p-e-w • today at 2:30 PM
On the bright side, even a small local LLM can easily improve garbage code like that.
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And it's worth considering that obfuscation only ever worked against casuals for whom tedious was a bridge too far. Nation state actors and criminal hacker groups, on the other hand, consider the tedious entirely worth it.