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teravoryesterday at 11:29 PM1 replyview on HN

you can diff binaries in a disassembler, the technique has been used for a long time to discover patched Microsoft vulnerabilities, create exploits and then race the world.

now you can instruct an LLM to do this with MCP...


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rndhouseyesterday at 11:58 PM

There are many techniques for making a closed-source binary harder to reverse engineer: polymorphism, symbol stripping, code encryption, packing, and so on. Closed-source binaries at least stand a chance of being effectively obfuscated, unlike open-source code.

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