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Was your source obfuscated?

Does it matter? A constant string is a constant string.

Well, if you want to obfuscate a constant string in your code, you can, e.g. by generating it dynamically from summing two hardcoded integer arrays. Not to say you should, but you can.

That sounds an awful lot like DRM with all its failed approaches…

Sounds like? That's what obfuscation is (or more accurately, obfuscation is what DRM is). No one ever claimed, or ever will claim, that obfuscation stops people from seeing what you're doing.

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