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What is Obfuscation

Chapter 166
Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
In the context of online search, the practice by search providers of deliberately complicating the process of finding and comparing online goods for sale.
Published in Chapter:
Microeconomic Aspects of E-Commerce
James E. Prieger (Pepperdine University, USA) and Daniel Heil (Hoover Institution, USA)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch166
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Chapter 13
Evolution of Malware in the Digital Transformation Age
To obfuscate something means to make it so that it is not clear or transparent, much like dirty water makes it hard to see to the bottom of a pond.
Published in Chapter: Evolution of Malware in the Digital Transformation Age; From: Handbook of Research on Advancing Cybersecurity for Digital Transformation
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Chapter 34
Threats and Vulnerabilities of Mobile Applications
Deliberate act of creating a machine or a source code that is not understandable for humans.
Published in Chapter: Threats and Vulnerabilities of Mobile Applications; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
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Chapter 37
Location Privacy in Automotive Telematics
Obfuscation is the deliberate degradation of location information by responding in a less granular fashion about requested location data.
Published in Chapter: Location Privacy in Automotive Telematics; From: Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics
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