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That and software can be easily decompiled. It's not that hard if you really want to know how something works. I learnt enough asm to modify a modern app that w
by steve19 7y ago
That and software can be easily decompiled. It's not that hard if you really want to know how something works. I learnt enough asm to modify a modern app that was essential to my work flow but had been abandoned by the developers. It didn't take me that long to learn.
A nation state can easily do it if they want. The US govt (NSA) has even devloped a reverse engineering tool and open sourced it.
- monocasa 7y agoSure, but the USSR just openly ran modified versions of OS/360. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM China certainly has the capability to do the same to all of Microsoft's products. It's not a fundamental part of software that China isn't bilking Microsoft blazenly, there's something deeper going on.