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Re: Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques

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Post by Affric » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 10:19 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #44

Affric wrote: post #23

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Glad you have said it. And before a developer for these commerce websites jumps up and says “ah but supreme are trying to prevent bots from buying up all of their merch and scalping it”: Supreme are restricting supply so they can maximise profits. They are selling on the web rather than through traditional retail outlets using this method not to reach a wider audience for the audience’s sake but to have a larger numb…

Scalpers only exist because they are not raising the price to reduce demand. If they just wanted a higher price there is still room to go higher.

There are opportunity costs to decreasing production. There are points where you are achieving economies of scale for your suppliers that allow you to negotiate lower prices. Scalpers could be seen as a perverse source of marketing. I am not going to pretend though that I have a very strong understanding of luxury streetware firms.

I appreciate you attempting to introduce some nuance to a discussion about goods. I would imagine that Supreme’s marketing team would be pretty savvy and know how to hit the mark.

My point is more about their determination to run obsfucated code on their users computers and the intersection between that and google’s vision for the browser.

Re: Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques

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Post by salawat » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #49

thorncorona wrote: post #46

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Ah yes, the supply vs. demand argument. My favorite. [x] only exists because it is underpriced relative to market demand. A great question to ask after this is "would i be okay subjecting my child/mother/father to this experience?" For example, there are 2 tennis courts available on a first come, first serve basis at a park in SF. Because they are free to reserve, and there's more demand than supply, people will bot…

>Is this ethical for every dealer in the country to do the same? Yes, if it means that a car that I want is in stock as opposed to having to wait for 6 months I would consider it ethical.

It's in stock. You can't afford it though unless we're being charitable by assuming you're richer than the whales that such an economic practice being pervasive creates.

Re: Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques

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Post by LoganDark » Mon, Aug 14, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

flangola7 wrote: post #43

js2 wrote: post #22

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> Interesting though it involves recompiling the web browser. Years ago I really wanted to disable the blink tag, so I just ran `perl -pie "s/blank/abcde/g"` on the binary and that worked well enough. I'll bet you could so something similar with "debugger". On macOS, you'd break code signing, but you could re-sign it or strip the signing and let it run unsigned.

What makes it special in macos?

macOS verifies signatures of all apps. Windows comes close, if you configure enough GPOs, otherwise it just gives you a warning. (If you've seen the "unknown publisher" warning that literally everyone immediately clicks past, that's what I mean.)