Why does dropbox obfuscate their client code?

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If dropbox is a backup application then their job is to protect the files on the server, which is already gated by authentication. So why do they have to obfuscate their client code? Shouldn't that be straightforward to write? It has so many competitors already.

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What do you mean client code? If you mean their GUI, that that's because it is written in python. It's pre compiled to run faster.

Recently some one published a paper with their findings after reverse engineering their client code and in that it said that the code is obfuscated.

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