The thought of a script to auto obfuscate kinda gives me the chills.
To do that kinda thing safely, the auto script would have to work out the functionality of your program, and replace elements of it on the fly, while maintaining logical and functional integrity.
Sometimes, I have a hard enough time reading through some of the code there trying to work out what the whole thing does.. I'd hate to program something that did it automatically.. Tho, I think I'd have a lot of respect for someone that managedit.. :)

Malk

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