This is deliberate misinformation. You can easily see that versions prior to Beta 1.8 were obfuscated just by downloading the .jar for the older versions on mi

This is deliberate misinformation. You can easily see that versions prior to Beta 1.8 were obfuscated just by downloading the .jar for the older versions on minecraft.wiki. You can even view some of the old MCP mappings here: https://archive.org/details/minecraftcoderpack https://archive.org/details/minecraftcoderpack