alt Hacker NewsHow can they tell if the software is closed or open source?
They would have to maintain a server side hashmap of every open source file in existence
And it'd be trivial to spoof. Just change a few lines and now it doesn't know if it's closed or open
How can they tell if the software is closed or open source?
They would have to maintain a server side hashmap of every open source file in existence
And it'd be trivial to spoof. Just change a few lines and now it doesn't know if it's closed or open
Of course just having the hash of the file wouldn't work, they would have to do something more complicated, a kind of perceptual hash. It's not easy, but I think it is doable.
But then I suspect lots of parts in a closed source project are similar to open source code, so you can't just refuse to analyze any code that contains open source parts, and an attacker could put a few open source files into "fake" closed source code, and presumably the llm would not flag them because the ratio open/closed source code is good. But that would raise the costs for attackers.