alt Hacker NewsAnd 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.
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inigyou • yesterday at 2:18 PM
Pirates checked Denuvo, once considered the king of DRM.
walrus01 • yesterday at 2:17 PM
> consider the tedious entirely worth it.
Entirely without LLMs, I'm imagining an office of North Korean compsci graduates doing astonishingly tedious tasks, for whom an office job on a basic Linux computer and slightly better diet and nice apartment put them in the top 1-2% of living standard in the country.
Yes, obfuscation was always a matter of cost: how much money do you need to break the protection? LLM just decreased that amount by a lot.
(Yes ok, RSA4096 is technically a matter of cost, you just need an infinite amount of money)