Comments on: Writing A JavaScript Obfuscator http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/07/03/writing-a-javascript-obfuscator/ A magical discussion of software, economics, and other assorted theories. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tekkie http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/07/03/writing-a-javascript-obfuscator/comment-page-1/#comment-2213 tekkie Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:47:32 +0000 http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/07/03/writing-a-javascript-obfuscator/#comment-2213 JavaScript obfuscation will not help in case of OCR harvesters but the regular HTML-scanning bots would be troubled. Even so, that would equal to using a JavaScript-based encoding as a bot scanning the code, wouldn't render it. There's Mac OS X Dashboard widget called <a href="http://obfuscatr.flashbit.net" title="obfuscatr - email address obfuscator" rel="nofollow">obfuscatr</a> that uses this kind of logic. See the details at <a href="http://tekkie.flashbit.net/mac-os/obfuscatr-110-released" title="obfuscatr 1.1.0 released" rel="nofollow">flash tekkie</a>. <a href="http://obfuscatr.flashbit.net" title="obfuscatr - email address obfuscator" rel="nofollow">obfuscatr</a> was also <a href="http://tekkie.flashbit.net/mac-os/obfuscatr-featured-in-macworld" title="obfuscatr featured in Macworld" rel="nofollow">featured in MacWorld</a> Italy of March 2008. JavaScript obfuscation will not help in case of OCR harvesters but the regular HTML-scanning bots would be troubled. Even so, that would equal to using a JavaScript-based encoding as a bot scanning the code, wouldn’t render it.

There’s Mac OS X Dashboard widget called obfuscatr that uses this kind of logic. See the details at flash tekkie.

obfuscatr was also featured in MacWorld Italy of March 2008.

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