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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by krapp on Sunday March 12, 2017 @06:44AM (#13850145)
It's an effective way of obfuscating malware, for one thing.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by kwhitefoot on Sunday March 12, 2017 @12:33PM (#13851432)
Surely not. It would be easy to spot.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by chc on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:55PM (#13851959)
Obfuscation doesn't necessarily need to be hard to spot, just hard to understand. Like, could you spot this in a chunk of minified code? Probably. Would you be able to figure out what was going on? Probably not without some difficulty.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by kwhitefoot on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:10PM (#13852431)
If it's hard to understand like that then I would be automatically suspicious of it.
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