obfuscation

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This is another example of the dubious security vulnerability known as wrapping a simple idea inside layers of obfuscation and then thinking that somehow the obfuscation is the source of the problem

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  1. The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion. From thence comes care, sorrow, and anxiety, obfuscation of spirits, desperation, and the like. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 202. Too often theologians, like mystics and cuttle-fish, escape pursuit by enveloping themselves in their self-raised obfuscations. J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, II. 142.

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  • Moreover, binary obfuscation is also used to defeat automated network traffic analyzers such like Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. —  Help Net Security - News
  • In other words, binary code obfuscation is the technique of altering the original code structure and maintaining its original functionality. —  Help Net Security - News
  • Will there be an approach of appeasement and obfuscation, as has happened in the past in Karnataka and elsewhere when faced with similar militant majoritarianism seeking shelter under distorted Hindu ideology? —  rediff.com
  • Deliberate obfuscation, the kind that takes genius. —  beyond the pale
  • Despite apologetics and much obfuscation, the answer is the Arab majority has shown preference for totalitarian tyranny. —  Winnipeg Sun
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  1. Also offuscation; from Late Latin obfuscatio(n-), a darkening, from obfuscare, darken: see obfuscate.
 

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