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This is excellent news for anyone reverse engineering these apps, getting all these unintentionally-released symbols. Thanks Apple!

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I'm actually curious if this has security implications? Is this making public anything that some app developers have thought important to obfuscate?

If any developer is relying on security by obscurity to protect anything sensitive, they deserve to be accessed better sooner than later.

However there are some practical purposes od obscurity like in games that madd reverse engineering harder (though possible of course), it might become easier in some situations.

Hmm. Recently I have been using my api-keys as actual function names. Maybe that's not such a good idea

You just brought me this close to spitting out my coffee from laughing this morning. Thanks for the great comment to start my day :)

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