Hector Martin

Security through obscurity is definitely not useless, like you mention in the comments.

Obviously reliance on obscurity is a bad idea, but your assumption that reversing all types of obfuscation is trivial is simply false.

You can obfuscate all you want, but it's always breakable given enough effort. Commercial products claiming otherwise are snake oil.

Of course that doesn't mean you should never do it, since sometimes obfuscation is all you *can* do, but what they've done here is silly.

I agree in this particular case, but which is safer, a safe on a street corner or a safe buried in an unknown field?

Bad analogy; in this world everyone owns a copy of the safe and can make safe-cracking robots for free and combine efforts.

Maybe having access to the same model safe, but not necessarily a copy of the safe with the same contents. That would depend on situation.

For obfuscation it's always a copy of the safe with the same contents. Otherwise there is other security involved. Obfuscation is cloneable.