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Sure you could, if the code is complex enough you would hide dead code acting as a signature, which would be somewhat analogous to mapmakers inserting false towns in their maps [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street



This is what I was looking for. It seems like a common copyright problem in bunch of applications.




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