[codeflo]

I also hate it when technical terms are needlessly overloaded, and I can only assume it's often because our field is fractured enough that even widely known terminology might not be known in every little niche. But one has to wonder... don't people use Google when they invent new terms?

Either way, I found this paper that describes a certain obfuscation technique as virtualization [1]. I can only assume that devirtualization is meant as the corresponding deobfuscation technique. So maybe it is the correct, if unfortunate, term. Quote:

> Virtualization-obfuscation replaces native code in a binary with semantically equivalent and self-defined bytecode, which, upon ex- ecution, is interpreted by a custom virtual machine.

[1] https://cis.temple.edu/~qzeng/papers/deobfuscation-icics2017...