I saw the following code in this commit for MongoDB’s Java Connection driver, and it appears at first to be a joke of some sort. What does the following code do? if (!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))) { return res; } (EDIT: the code has been updated since posting this question) 4 Answers … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 7 months ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. When placing email addresses on a webpage do you place them as text like … Read more
I’ve been contemplating how to protect my C/C++ code from disassembly and reverse engineering. Normally I would never condone this behavior myself in my code; however the current protocol I’ve been working on must not ever be inspected or understandable, for the security of various people. Now this is a new subject to me, and … Read more
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Given by a colleague as a puzzle, I cannot figure out how this C program actually compiles and runs. What is this >>>= operator and the strange 1P1 literal? I have tested in Clang and GCC. There are no warnings and the output is “???” #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a[2]={ 10, 1 }; … Read more
I have seen the following macro definitions in a coding book. #define TRUE “https://stackoverflow.com/”/”https://stackoverflow.com/” #define FALSE ‘-‘-‘-‘ There was no explanation there. Please explain to me how these will work as TRUE and FALSE. 6 Answers 6
I’m looking for very simple obfuscation (like encrypt and decrypt but not necessarily secure) functionality for some data. It’s not mission critical. I need something to keep honest people honest, but something a little stronger than ROT13 or Base64. I’d prefer something that is already included in the .NET framework 2.0, so I don’t have … Read more
Obfuscation is one way, but it can’t protect from breaking the piracy protection security of the application. How do I make sure that the application is not tampered with, and how do I make sure that the registration mechanism can’t be reverse engineered? Also it is possible to convert a C# application to native code, … Read more
I am developing a piece of software in Python that will be distributed to my employer’s customers. My employer wants to limit the usage of the software with a time-restricted license file. If we distribute the .py files or even .pyc files it will be easy to (decompile and) remove the code that checks the … Read more
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I want to make a JavaScript application that’s not open source, and thus I wish … Read more
