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Why obfuscate it?

Why obfuscate it?

Posted Dec 16, 2004 22:17 UTC (Thu) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
In reply to: Why obfuscate it? by amk
Parent article: Ed Felten's tinyp2p

It's sometimes hard for me to imagine, but outside of programmers and computer geeks, just about any code is "cryptic". So expanding it won't significantly expand the audience that understands it, while reducing the impact of "just X lines".


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Why obfuscate it?

Posted Dec 17, 2004 0:34 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Well, the obfuscated version is easier to print on a T-shirt, for one thing... :-) (nice square form)

...I still have a couple "RSA munitions" shirts floating around. Maybe this could be made into something similar.

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