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Originally posted by Patchou
My main issue with this is that we're talking about obfuscation. Once I start taking this path, there will never be an end to it and I don't want some develoeprs to think what they did is secure, encrypted and unhackable.
The thing is the people that are most likely to take a skin and just edit 1 or two images and re-release it as their own are the people that look for the easy way out. The first thing they look for is the images directory and at the moment its in plain sight. I'm sure Menthix will be able to back me up here, because the majority of rips that happen don't even touch the UIFiles at all.
By not extracting the contents of the plsk, at least it helps because those kind of people who will just look and go "oh no images, meh oh well" and just move on. The people who actually take the time to extract everything and go through the files are most likely the ones that just want to apply a personal modification for private use or learn from the code.
I know its virtually impossible to make something that's unhackable, but at least by slowing down those lazy people it will help stop.
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