[Oletros]

> They took not just the signatures but their semantic meaning

What's the difference between the signature of an API and the semantic meaning?

[waqf]

If you write a function int makeHash(int) which computes a trapdoor function, and I write a function int makeHash(int) which prepares breakfast and returns a status code, then they have the same signature but different semantic meaning.

[Oletros]

But in the case of API's, the signatures and the semantic meaning are the same