- LLMs have dramatically lowered the cost and time required for reverse engineering web code, making it trivial for novices to break protections.
- Current JavaScript code protections can be cracked by advanced LLMs in minutes, exposing data and IP that was previously harder to access.
- Defenders are struggling to keep up as LLMs can quickly analyze and bypass obfuscation, source maps, and even commercial antibot measures.
- The asymmetry of the problem favors offense: reversing existing complexity is easier to automate than generating novel defensive complexity.
- Examples include regenerating source files from bundled apps and cracking proprietary online readers with minimal effort using LLMs.