\t\t\t\tA couple of weeks after “Berliner Sparkasse” renovated their online banking portal, I managed to amend my automated account statement download to work with their portal again. Actually it is not just amending, I rather had to write it again. Alright, I actually gained some experience in that area through the years, but it still is rather a hard and frustrating business.<\/p>\n
Their portal uses obfuscated HTML, so it’s not a trivial job, and you never really know in advance, whether you invest your time properly and successfully<\/b> in that reverse engineering job. (At some stage I sometimes think, I will give up.) To put things right: this is not a job I am getting paid for, it just eases my task of regular and frequent downloading the statements of all bank accounts belonging to “family and company”.<\/p>\n
I would be terribly honoured to get invited to present my page scraping and de-obfuscation approach at some workshop or conference. If \u00a0the circumstances of the invitation would allow me to not loose money by missing on my bread-and-butter job, that would be so welcome!! If de-obfuscation and page scraping would even become my special niche to make a little money on, maybe fund my sons’ education and maybe even avoid the hardnesses of expected old-age poverty \u2013 oh, paradise!!!<\/p>\n
No, actually I don’t really want to help the “obfuscation community” to improve their obfuscation frameworks, but then \u2026 \u2013 you should understand: on my side this is a one-man-show, they get backed by the financial industry and whoever.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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