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**💻📰 Debugging an Undebuggable App**
The author encountered an iOS widget app with unusually robust anti-debugging protections, including jailbreak detection and code obfuscation, making it difficult to analyze and debug. The goal was to circumvent these protections to understand the app's functionality, which appears to go beyond typical widget capabilities. The process involved overcoming each protection method individually, with a video demonstrating the techniques in more detail.
The methods used to overcome the app's protections aren't fully detailed here, but the overall approach focused on attaching a debugger as a starting point. The author plans to reveal the app's more interesting functions in a later post. The main focus is on the challenge of debugging an app specifically designed to resist debugging, highlighting the unexpected level of protection in a seemingly simple widget app.
[Read More](https://bryce.co/undebuggable/)
💬 [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081713) (44)
The author encountered an iOS widget app with unusually robust anti-debugging protections, including jailbreak detection and code obfuscation, making it difficult to analyze and debug. The goal was to circumvent these protections to understand the app's functionality, which appears to go beyond typical widget capabilities. The process involved overcoming each protection method individually, with a video demonstrating the techniques in more detail.
The methods used to overcome the app's protections aren't fully detailed here, but the overall approach focused on attaching a debugger as a starting point. The author plans to reveal the app's more interesting functions in a later post. The main focus is on the challenge of debugging an app specifically designed to resist debugging, highlighting the unexpected level of protection in a seemingly simple widget app.
[Read More](https://bryce.co/undebuggable/)
💬 [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43081713) (44)