On: Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

[Thorrez]

If you ran a social media site and app, and had a problem of many different groups employing bots to post tons of content for nefarious purposes to your site, what would you do?

[lazyeye → Thorrez]

I guess Id probably be doing something similar to what all the other social media apps are doing (unless of course, I had something to hide...)

[Thorrez → lazyeye]

What are the other social media apps doing? Are you sure they're not using obfuscated VMs as well?

I'm guessing a lot of them use reCAPTCHA, and according to this comment, reCAPTCHA uses an obfuscated VM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748994

[lazyeye → Thorrez]

Yep I'd probably go with a reCaptcha like everybody else except TikTok then.