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What he means is that it's not practically feasible. Experts and a few talented crackers have the expertise to go through a binary with tools like IDA Pro and a
by jonathanstrange 6y ago
What he means is that it's not practically feasible. Experts and a few talented crackers have the expertise to go through a binary with tools like IDA Pro and analyse it, but the process takes a lot of man-hours and is much harder than auditing source code. So yes, if there is a problem with Zoom the NSA and other state-run agencies will find and exploit it, but ordinary security professionals might not have the combination of manpower and expertise needed.
Since it's used so much now, I still hope that somebody reverse-engineers some of the clients. In contrast to auditing open source code, this might also pose legal problems, though.