Look at this absolutely remarkable, perfectly rectangular block of hand-obfuscated JavaScript for our click here to get a virus banner by crizzo. It is magnificent, I keep re-reading
https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-blog/pulls/5/files
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this is art, and criticisms about security related to minified or obfuscated code are not allowed in these mentions according to the principles of "no fun police allowed"
oh shid this hand-obfuscated, perfectly rectangular block of obviously funny javascript that says it will give me a virus might actually give me a virus. WHAT IS TINY_LIL_CIRCLE IS THAT A TARGETING RETICLE ON MY VERY PERSON
;TINY_LIL_CIRCLE='o'](https://media.neuromatch.social/media_attachments/files/116/611/262/745/710/864/original/71ae6c6049377bc1.png)
@jonny Incredible.
Reminds me of this hand-justified guide to Super Metroid from 2001. Too bad the author misspelled “missiles” all the way through!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs/10114
oh thank god there is an antivirus WAIT WHAT is the antivirus doing associated with the TINY LIL CIRCLE
i feel like the code is pretty clear about its intention
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@jonny There should be a law mandating that any minified code should be accompanied by meta-data pointing to the original code and providing the steps necessary to re-minify it.
That, or just make it super hard for obfuscated code to run in the browser.
Because minifying for obfuscation is useless against a sillfull attacker, and while minifying helps reducing network loads, it is, as shown here, a security nightmare.
@aaribaud but also, it is possible for things to be art that both criticizes and engages with the format of minified code by spoofing and satirizing it, and making things that you don't like illegal unless they are exclusively a vector of harm is sort of "bad for human culture."
