Ghost in the Machine
Godfrey Nolan · Apress eBooks · 2012
If you’re trying to understand just how good an obfuscator or decompiler really is, then it helps to be able to see what’s going on inside a DEX file and the corresponding Java class file. Otherwise you’re relying on the word of a third-party vendor or, at best, a knowledgeable reviewer. For most people, that’s not good enough when you’re trying to protect mission-critical code. At the very least, you should be able to talk intelligently about the area of decompilation and ask the obvious questions to understand what’s happening. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.