The advent of this technology may make reverse engineering (a common method used by hackers) much more difficult. Software applications can be set up in such a way so that your computer keeps them completely encrypted until the moment your computers processor uses the application. This is an effort to greatly limit the ability of hackers to reverse engineer the software. The result is tough-to-crack protection from any hacker who would pirate the software, find out security flaws that could compromise users, and even in some cases understand its basic functions.

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