[Giagnocavo]Michael::Write() - Follow up on Obfuscation and VistaDB

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Follow up on Obfuscation and VistaDB

Recently I mentioned how a lot of companies use obfuscation unnecessarily, and it ends up hurting legitimate customers while doing nothing to prevent "crackers". Specifically, I mentioned VistaDB, as the obfuscation tool was injecting invalid IL, causing Mono to reject the assembly.

Jason Short replied to me and I detailed the exact problems with the obfuscator (along with a few F# scripts to unobfuscate and remove the bad IL). They then released a new build with the obfuscation removed -- which Mono now happily loads.

I just wanted to give kudos to VistaDB for doing this. Not many companies are smart enough to realise that their "protection" tools are useless and do a 180 on such a stance.

Code | Security

Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:12:05 PM UTC

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