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Anyone who’s seen a couple different production database environments is likely familiar with the “soft deletion” pattern – instead of deleting data directly via DELETE statement, tables get an extra deleted_at timestamp and deletion is performed with an update statement instead.

A Git repository is an append-only filesystem. You can add snapshots of files and directories, but you can't modify or delete anything. Git commands sometimes purport to modify data. For example git commit --amend suggests that it amends a commit. It doesn't. There is no such thing as amending a commit; commits are immutable.

When it comes to reverse engineering obfuscated JavaScript code there are two major approaches:

• Dynamic analysis - using debugger to step through the code and observing it’s behaviour over time.
• Static analysis - performing source code analysis without running it, but parsing and analysing the code itself.