Any way for Javascript to sense that it's been deminified?

so the hacker just need to locate your code checking the timing and remove it ?
;-)

Are you aware you can run javascript on server side?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzCnUXEvF84

the only place where your code << can't >> be stolen..

Leakim,

so the hacker just need to locate your code checking the timing and remove it ?

Well, there wouldn't actually be code that checked the timing. You might write something that needed jQuery, for example,  but because of the time to deminify something first, the jQuery hasn't loaded by the time it's needed so the code that expects it hits an undefined error. There's no clue that you did something to cause that error or what to change in 10,000 lines of JavaScript to fix it, assuming you have something that will let you modify loaded JavaScript. (Is there such a thing?)

Dave,

There are many resources that can take your code and 'de-minify' it when it is not running.

Yes, but the real progress in reverse engineering comes when you can run deminified code, stepping through the code and watching how the variables change.  I'd like to prevent that.

I know 100% protection is not possible.  I'd just like to make it 10X harder than if I do nothing.

Leakim,
I didn't see your second post when I posted the above. It may be possible to run JavaScript on the server, but if the JavaScript's main job is to manipulate the client's screen through the DOM, it seems that that code has to be in the client.

You can't prevent people from decoding and running your code.  It's just a matter of time and resources.  You can protect it from the people like me who are too lazy to decode it but more serious coders and hackers probably won't have any trouble figuring it out.

Besides, what makes it worth stealing?  Generally, you'd be better off spending your time making things that earn money.

Ok, let's close this out.  I just thought I'd throw out the idea and see what came back.

Thanks.