A security anti-pattern in which secure information is "protected" by making it "hard to find" in the mistaken belief that it is then secure. It is the approximate equivalent of hiding the front door key under the mat.
Questions tagged [security-by-obscurity]
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Is there any JS library to obscure string manipulation?
I'd like to make the string manipulation as obscured as possible.
Now I wrote a small function made HEX string from the original string (the length of the result is twice as the length of the original). But even after the uglification the code is…
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Entry Point Obscuring
I've been writing an EPO program and so far I've been able to find a call opcode and get the RVA from the following address in the binary, then parse the IAT to get names of functions that are imported and their corresponding RVA's.
I've come to a…
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Privacy, Protection, Obscurity
I'm working on a project with a few interesting requests from the client. Wondering if anyone has any suggestions or would like to weigh in.
I'm creating a Web App for my client to distribute internally to a handful of people in the company. They…
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php obscure email address with modifications
Sometimes my content has email addresses in it - but I want to obscure them using javascript.
I have made a javascript solution for the frontend which rebuilds them but only from a certain format.
This is the format I need HTML to be in for email…
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De"compressing" Javascript
This will without a doubt be a duplicate, but I have no idea what else to call it.
A friend of mine is trying to learn Javascript. He accidentally saved the "compressed" (all whitespace removed) version as the version he has, and wants me to help…
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