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Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables by davexunit on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:14AM (#15465282)
The user already doesn't have the source. Obfuscating the binary is just hostile.
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Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables by jamesrom on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:49PM (#15480705)
No, that's my point.

You can inspect the code running on your machine. The machine code.

At what level should one expect it's user to understand the code running on one's machine? If I have you the source to my application in brainfuck, would that suffice?

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