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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 23, 2004 at 19:10 UTC
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No problem: just run them on your co-workers' computers instead of your own. | [reply] |
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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2004 at 18:34 UTC
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The tradition for obfu in general is that you must understand before you run. Doing otherwise is at your own risk.
Here at pm, we've been moderate about that and generally frown on destructive code. That custom is not to be relied on, because it can be and has been broken at times.
We tend to cite the bigger tradition, laugh, and go on when it's broken. There are usually considerations and cries for Something To Be Done. Little comes of that since the thing called to be done is quite impossible (some flavor of halting problem).
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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by hossman (Prior) on Sep 23, 2004 at 21:24 UTC
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I don't run obfuscated code unless I understand it, or it's got lots of replies from other people wose judgement i've learned to trust that say things like "this is really cool".
Obviously any obfu with a reply that says "DON'T RUN THIS, IT'S A TROJAN HORSE, WHAT IT DOES IS...." should not be trusted.
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Do not believe the parent post. It is a trojan horse. What it does is infect your brane with an antiobfu, antifun meme!
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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by belg4mit (Prior) on Sep 24, 2004 at 02:17 UTC
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You could run it in a sandbox of some kind like Safe.
Or run it as a user with no priveleges. Even though I
generally figure them before hand I tend to run them
on a windows box (crap that'll break anyways, and doesn't
have rm :-P)
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I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.
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Safe isn't safe.
If I want to run code that I don't really trust, I fire up my trusty ol' Virtual PC, after having backed up the disk image. This has no personal data in it. If whatever it is does Naughty Things, I can back them out by restoring the backup of the disk image.
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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on Sep 24, 2004 at 04:36 UTC
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Your caution is well-founded.
And when someone does mention a danger, you'd be wise to listen ;) Don't be a dumbass like me - I posted what should have been a fun toy (search the monastery for Spudgun and see what I mean), and when someone wrote a form stuffer for me Spudgun, I blew it off thinking "no one here would actually do that!" And they did ;) So after some pissed off sysadmin's contacted me, I took it down.
++ to all the good advice posted before mine - even to the aspiring BOFH for the well-needed laugh! ;)
Cheers!
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Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by jacques (Priest) on Sep 24, 2004 at 04:45 UTC
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This is a non-issue for me, since I like to sit back and enjoy the pretty pictures without actually running the code. Sort of like Playboy for geeks. | [reply] |
Re: Danger or not: obfuscation
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Sep 24, 2004 at 17:57 UTC
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If I can't understand the obfu enough to trust it, I run it inside a debugger (after checking for AUTOLOAD and BEGIN tricks). I won't execute a given parsed line until I know what it does. Really helps learn the obfu, too!
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