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this level of obfuscation in a social app is super suspicious



I wouldn't say so, pretty common. It used to add a layer of security. You should take a look at an casino app.

Did you know that every chip on a Chip & Pin bank card is powered by a Java Virtual Machine that when you go to tap or insert in to a card reader it's activated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card




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