Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)
It&#x27;s sad how much human effort is spend in creating obfuscation schemes, and then in analyzing them. Or creating proprietary things and then reverse engineering them.<p>Sometimes I wonder if we could just make everything open. No obfuscation, no captchas, just a neat API for everything. Of course that wouldn&#x27;t work <i>ceteris paribus</i>, everything else unchanged, due to bad actors, spam, or just competitors who want to take your work. But if you&#x27;d change the incentives - make society non-adversarial, non-profit oriented - then all that gating and obfuscation would become unneccessary.