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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by raverbashing on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:01AM (#11159263)
In today's world we can assume that the number of programmers with deep knowledge of systems is only going to dwindle

I shudder to think of code written by interns

But why would they split 'Open' and 'File'?

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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by kuschku on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:04AM (#11159288)
Obfuscation.
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Re:German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens by catwell on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:51AM (#11159686)
It is also a usual trick to avoid detection by "heuristic" antivirus software (even in legit software).
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