Wes Cutshall

Obfuscation, it’s not just a fun word…it’s useful! Every once in a while you do something that is so simple, yet so valuable, that it just makes you feel good – like you actually did something complicated and are reaping the rewards. Today I had the need to obfuscate some JavaScript and I found this online JavaScript obfuscation tool. I had tried one already and it had failed to work with my code, but this one worked like a charm. It is possible to de-obfuscate obfuscated code, but the casual HTML coder won’t even understand what they’re looking at. You’re preventing a person from looking at your HTML and saying, “Hey, this is nice, I can use this!” but not preventing someone from deciding to copy your site outright.