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Mozilla Will Block Firefox Add-Ons That Contain Obfuscated Code -
submitted 4 years ago by BackwardsCompatible from helpnetsecurity.com
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[–]Yhvr 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
Oh no, what will we ever do? cough https://beautifier.io/ cough
I mean, you can only prettify code so much. In the process of obfuscation, things like comments and variable names are lost. There are also some pros to obfuscation, like faster execution time (sometimes), and smaller files. I don't see why they should be against this
[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Google said:
the company explained its decision by noting that over 70% of malicious and policy violating extensions that they block from Chrome Web Store contain obfuscated code.
...and Mozilla agreed.
That's good enough for me.
My crappy connection delays me more than any millisecond-faster 'execution time' could make up for.
[–]Intuit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
It's flawed to think that therefore blocking obfuscated code will stop 70% of malicious and policy-violating extensions. Initially it will, of course, but those will be modified to pass as non-obfuscated code.
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