NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Patrick Saint - laurent
<patrick at saint-laurent.us> wrote:
> You are wasting your time don't waste your money as well.  Anyone with an
> intermediate knowledge of php internals will be able to
> decompile/unobfuscate/decrypt any of these products.  If the Zend engine can
> read it and convert it to bytecode it can be unobfuscated.
> Patrick Saint - laurent

The typical use case for obfuscation is to deliver working code to a
client that doesn't already have a history of paying you.

When the check clears, the client gets the unobfuscated version.

Yes, they could steal the code and run, but they will still have to
pay someone with "intermediate knowledge of php internals" in order to
decompile it. One hopes it's easier to just pay you.