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Yeah, the whole point of looking through the source code is to find undocumented APIs and bugs to exploit.
by webmobdev 6y ago
Yeah, the whole point of looking through the source code is to find undocumented APIs and bugs to exploit.
- monocasa 6y agoA lot of times stuff like undocumented APIs and bugs are easier to find taking apart the binary anyway. Goofy stuff tends to be obfuscated in source as engineers add so much abstraction around the goofy pieces, but it's clear in the final binary.
- webmobdev 6y ago> A lot of times stuff like undocumented APIs and bugs are easier to find taking apart the binary anyway. Is that why Microsoft, and all you people who poke at its binaries, have fixed all the bugs in MS binaries? /s
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- monocasa 6y agoWhy do you think the people poking around MS's binaries overwhelmingly want the bugs they find to be fixed?
- webmobdev 6y agoThe point was that if it was so easy, a lot more people would be disclosing the bugs and asking MS to fix. Not everyone hacker has a malicious intent.
- saltyshake 6y agothere are many books written on Windows undocumented APIs. these things aren't hidden at all.
- webmobdev 6y agoYeah, right. Everything is so open about all MS binaries that they don't even need to be closed source! It takes a lot of time and effort to find these poking the binaries, and then experimenting them. The source code makes this task obviously easy.