Ionic bonding. 1  A cation is a positively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge loses one or more electrons. 2  An anion is a negatively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge gains one or more electrons.
Obfuscation is the practice of making something difficult to understand. Programming code is often obfuscated to protect intellectual property and prevent an attacker from reverse engineering a proprietary software program.
If you are releasing valuable software (especially Java, Android, .NET and iOS) anywhere outside your immediate control and you are not distributing the source code, obfuscation should probably be part of your application development process. Obfuscation makes it much more difï¬cult for attackers to review the code and analyze the application.