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by Retr0id 12 days ago
Or indeed an illegal LLM prompt: "/goal locate and patch out the licensing check"
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angry_octet 12 days ago
Enforcing your rights under your contract by patching out some cert validation checks seems legal to me. Maybe not in places with anti-circumvention laws, but elsewhere it seems fine.
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userbinator 12 days ago
It would be amusingly ironic if someone used Copilot to do it.
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londons_explore 12 days ago
Pretty sure this is beyond copilots abilities... It's really bad at any kind of binary analysis.
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MatejKafka 11 days ago
It is absolutely great at binary analysis, as long as you give it a decompiler.
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ZeWaka 12 days ago
Really? It's been pretty good with a Ghidra MCP at signature scanning for extremely niche undocumented software.
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