[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach for this link. ]
“A few months ago, we ran a post on security through
obfuscation, regarding ways to make your code less comprehensible
to folks who didn’t understand it as well as you do. While, at the
core, this does nothing to actually ‘secure’ your code from anyone
with the patience to unravel it, it can be useful for keeping folks
who know ‘just enough to do a lot of damage’ from messing with your
scripts 😉 And, on another level, it can be a useful stalling
technique, since you’ll be making anyone work to figure out how
your script/code works before they can change it without risking
destroying it.“While I’m sure there are many more points to cover (and,
hopefully, we’ll cover them all eventually ;), today’s addition to
the arsenal is pretty obvious: Messing with your variable
names…”