A nice trick, but it is still not very obfuscated. Or
rather, it's one of those "obfuscation through encoding"
scripts that basically hides the real code away from
those reading by some sort of encoding scheme. The
backticks are a nice touch, but they are really the
only obfuscated part. *Some* encoding is okay, but it
should be limited to dead giveaway parts, such as
text messages, and not the code itself. (See my
Perl Racer code for an example that encodes the
text messages but not the code itself)
My quick test of a good obfuscation is: can I read
through this and figure out what it does? In this case,
the answer was "yes." I did think it was a usual map-chr
sort of letter munging until I got to the end, however,
so you get points for that. Making me decode the inside
to get to the actual code, however, is not good. Just my
$0.02. Everyone has individual styles and opinions about
obfuscations.
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