▲ 1604 ▼ We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com) submitted 2 years ago by griD@feddit.de to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml 105 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you can... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Oh yeah, you shouldn't. But people do this for fingerprinting, bot detection, and other "adversarial" scenarios where you really don't like the person executing your code. It's somewhat plausible Google would use this technique to do something scummy like this (although that is not the case). Relevant article and a great read: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Oh yeah, you shouldn't. But people do this for fingerprinting, bot detection, and other "adversarial" scenarios where you really don't like the person executing your code. It's somewhat plausible Google would use this technique to do something scummy like this (although that is not the case). Relevant article and a great read: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1 permalink fedilink source parent
