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Redirecting... is a personal blog at hot3eed.github.io about security and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part I): Obfuscation Techniques (2020)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as examples of reverse engineering Snapchat's API obfuscation, in a multi-part series with a follow-up on TikTok. Commenters cite or link the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part I): Obfuscation Techniques (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-20
- Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-17
- Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21
What Hacker News says?
> An argument against obscurity is that it adds additional pains for your "regular" users (as in developers/3rd party developers/app developers) No one should be applying obscurity to public-facing APIs or anything for which documentation is widely distributed outside the company. A better example would be Snapchat's intense and always evolving obfuscation strategies: https://hot3eed.github.io/snap_part1_obfuscation…
Comment linking /snap_part1_obfuscations.html
on “Security by obscurity is underrated”Submitted Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques as a story · 497 points
HN discussionCORRECT LINK: https://hot3eed.github.io/2020/06/18/snap_p1_obfuscations.ht...
Comment linking /2020/06/18/snap_p1_obfuscations.html
on “Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques”Submitted Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable as a story · 295 points
HN discussionIt's easier to follow if you read part I of the series first: https://hot3eed.github.io/2020/06/18/snap_p1_obfuscations.ht...
Comment linking /2020/06/18/snap_p1_obfuscations.html
on “Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable”Submitted Reverse Engineering Starling Bank (Part I): Obfuscation Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSnapchat's API call obfuscation: https://hot3eed.github.io/snap_part1_obfuscations.html This one about TikTok was recently on the HN front page: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1
Comment linking /snap_part1_obfuscations.html
on “Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online”Submitted Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part I): Obfuscation Techniques (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Deobfuscating the Undeobfuscatable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering Starling Bank (Part II): Jailbreak Detection and Mitigations as a story · 1 points
HN discussion