> it raises the difficulty barrier to implement outgoing network calls.
Not very much. You just obfuscate your code until this tool doesn't notice anything untoward, and then upload it.
Not very much. You just obfuscate your code until this tool doesn't notice anything untoward, and then upload it.
E.g. in Python, obfuscators I've come across tend to replace characters with non-Latin unicode chars, which should raise flags when found in a predominatenly latin based source code.
If the only thing looking at it is a machine, then you can keep iterating until the machine doesn't notice anything.