Cracking JXcore Again

http://markhaase.com/2015/06/25/cracking-jxcore-again/

by kolodny • 11 years ago

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hoare• 11 years ago

that was surprisingly simple for such a strong wording for their obfuscation:D

killercup• 11 years ago

tl;dr They take the original JXcore binary and append your compressed source code (as base64 in a JSON structure).

I had at least hoped that (a) they didn't need the base64 overhead and (b) used uglify to minify/obfuscate the code.

tl;dr^2 It's nice for deploying JS apps, the 'Protected JavaScript Source' claim is bullshit.

rimunroe5• 11 years ago

Is there anything to the JXcore project? I was at one meetup where (I think) a core member gave a presentation on it that seemed loaded with inaccuracies about Node and mobile development, and it sounded all quite suspect. Then I went to their GitHub and and was unimpressed by it as well. I haven't found anything about it that doesn't look pretty sketchy. Anyone more familiar with it who can chime in?

obastemur4• 11 years ago

This is so dumb cheap Mark! This is an open source project and everything is open in the wild while we stated several times there is no source code protection on our Github page.

Second time you are doing this the same cheap way. Congrats!

rimunroe5• 11 years ago

What does that even mean? This does not sound like a very reasonable response. What is cheap about what they did? The JXcore jxp page[1] makes assurances that are clearly absurd.

[1] http://jxcore.com/jxp/

obastemur4• 11 years ago

is there any link from any of the jxcore pages to that year old page ? It even says that download Beta 2... What beta 2 is that?

https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore is the place (as you and he already knows) we publicly give out the source codes. Even a new graduate can see what's been going on. Hey.. it's visible there is nothing to crack.

nodefan• 11 years ago

Since open sourcing the project, JXcore team hasn't made any claims on code protection. The project is clearly focusing on running Node on mobile devices and ease of deployment. Regrettably, the author has overlooked this.

rimunroe5• 11 years ago

The JXcore team has regrettably not done a great job of removing old and misleading stuff from their site.

obastemur4• 11 years ago

It's not part of the website. It's an unlinked html page that is reachable thanks to google. I'm wondering, for how long Mark is going to benefit that page to keep saying "cracked" JXcore again?

Cracking JXcore Again

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