Why it doesn’t make sense to obfuscate your code, or does it? – level 100
There is a great discussion on the merits of obfuscating code over at Ayende’s blog. He contends that there isn’t much benefit, and some commenters have a different take.
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Once I was using a third party application (I won’t say what it was for legal reasons!) and we had a number of support calls out to them to fix bugs. I knew it was written in .Net. We waited and waited and got tired of waiting. So I ran reflector over it, pulled the code out into a separate project… fixed the bugs and recompiled it. It worked. I never told them I did that. Did I do something bad? Probably. Do I want people doing that to my code? Absolutely not. So I’ll probably obfuscate my code to stop people like me snooping.