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Re:Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) by marginalia_nu on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:51AM (#34116352)
Given it will be gzip-compressed in transport, does this really save a meaningful amount of bandwidth?
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Re:Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) by draw_down on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:23AM (#34117636)
It’s really more that there is no reason not to do it. Void is marginally safer as well as shorter, so any minifier/transpile step etc will make this substitution.
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