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by ngneer 453 days ago
Thought experiment. Suppose all binaries could be instantly reverse engineered to perfection. How would that change security?
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Everyone would just replace all their proprietary programs with dumb clients that communicate with a server. Either that, or they'd go all in on homomorphic encryption.
Only formally proven systems will be secure
Everything is open source is you speak assembly.
Secure enclaves would appear in most computers. Nothing would be run without everything being encrypted.