Is hardening your software against decompilation efforts unethical?
Ethicsfags have no place in the tech industry.
It blurs into the line of digital restrictions management, but as long as the source code is free, it's a harmless deoptimization you can add so someone forks it without.
>>108763149So does that make it okay to build obnoxious power plants just to supply your AI data centers with energy for a paradigm you haven't even figured out how to profit off of yet while everyone in the locale fucking hates you and you pollute like a bitch?
As someone who has done a lot of reverse engineering, 90% of the effort you put into doing it is undone in like 15 minutes.Even faster now with LLM agents, that you can setup to automate the detection and work flow to unwind the fudding.
How could anyone argue that making your software resistant to decompilation is a matter of ethics?
>>108763124If your code is not doing unethical things, it is not unethical. If it is doing unethical things, it is unethical. Hardening against decompilation or not doesn't matter
>>108763124If it's a commercial product, then there is nothing wrong with protecting your intellectual property.
>>108763251"intellectual property" is unethical though
>>108763175This
I'm ambivalent. In my opinion, once you release something to the public as 0s and 1s, it's fair game. You need to understand that it's always a risk releasing any kind of digital data to the public in any form, and that anyone can do theoretically anything with it. Accept that risk or don't release.
>>108763160Yes.
>>108763124but it's doomed to fail
>>108763160Not sure what power plants and pollution have to do with software. If the government forced them to be good boys and not pollute or disturb the public, that would have no meaningful effect on software as a whole.
>>108763324Only faggots and communists believe this.
>>108763251>>108763324Code obfuscation is the opposite of intellectual property. It is the acknowledgement that intellectual property is fake and gay and that no one is going to save you when Ivan from Belarus cracks your shit.
>>108763489define communism
>>108763160But think about the stocks
>>108763124Go the extra mile and make your software as inefficient and cpu heavy as possible
>>108763153how about that he DOES own shoes after all
>>108763124How do you harden it against that? I don't think those techniques work except to stop some casual person.
>>108763124if you don't want anyone to see it then make sure it doesn't run on their computer. serve a SaaS and keep all the important proprietary logic on the server. as shrimple as that
>>108763709Shut up, Levy.
>>108763658Pretending that an idea can be owned was a mistake. The term "intellectual property" is essentially a jewish mind trick.
>>108763548Analyzing software then writing your own code equivalent of it in an attempt to replicate it isn't illegal. Might annoy the piss out of people who originally wrote it but that isn't really their call to make.
>>108764080I would if any of my money were tied up in them.But they're not.
>>108765893>i should be able to take things you made for free, and it's unethical for your to obfuscate your things to make it harder for menice cope brokefag, i will continue to bloat my binaries by 50Mb to make disassembling it hellish. enjoy waiting for ida to decompile the 80'000 lines of pseudocode for a function that is actually 5 lines lil nigga
>>108763175>>108763416>>108764240>decompilation is so easy>obfuscation doesnt work>only stops casulsWhy are there still no proper denuvo cracks then?CHECKMATE IDA FAGS LAMO
>>108763124Do you think your code so unique and revolutionary that it needs such protection?
>>108764238Bro he has a condition that makes his feet swell like a motherfucker.There is no way RMS could use shoes nowadays
>>108763124Sounds like a waste of effort
