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by userbinator 3174 days ago
The demoscene continues to make extensive use of packers, more for achieving even better compression than for protection against RE:

https://in4k.github.io/wiki/exe-packers-tweakers-and-linkers

(Incidentally, these advanced packers also tend to frustrate RE to some extent, since the same tricks they use to increase compression ratios can often greatly confuse RE tools.)

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"RE" is reverse engineering, maybe?