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by LysPJ 1698 days ago
If there are projects where you don't want to reveal this info in the binary, you can turn the feature off with:

-buildinfo=false

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Yes, but it is turned on by default. And 99% of people will go and copy-paste existing tutorial code to their projects.

I especially found out this is really useful for extracting information form non-stripped firmware binaries. They lay around on some S3 buckets, where cheap IoT manufacturers think it's safe to expose them online for updating purposes...