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Re:Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows by tptacek on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @03:51PM (#627387)
If brl is watching, he'll name one that I decided was much too much of a pain in the ass to win a message board bet over. Most of my experience here is NDA'd though.
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Re:Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows by Create on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @04:31PM (#627449)
Most of my experience here is NDA'd though.

...security through obscurity never really works.

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Re:Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows by tptacek on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @04:49PM (#627485)
A nonstatement. Just because something is obscure doesn't mean that it hasn't also been secured. More importantly, in this setting, obscurity increases cost. DRM is all about cost.
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Re:Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows by Create on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @05:20AM (#628222)
A nonstatement. Just because something is obscure doesn't mean that it hasn't also been secured.

A nonstatement. Just because something has also been secured, doesn't mean that it is secure. Obfuscation has no true correlation to true security.

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Re:Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows by tptacek on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @11:36AM (#628596)
I don't know who's argument that comment was intended to address, but it wasn't mine.
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