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Re:Symantec CEO says source code reviews by foreign states p... by jononor on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:35PM (#15454500)
You could keep the virus fingerprint database outside the codebase. Customers would then pay for access (and updates) to the fingerprints.

The fingerprints have to be some sorts of data, like regular expressions or other limited instruction set which can only parse the incoming file and not communicate with outside world.

The company could automatically release fingerprints into the open after a time, say 6 months.

Re:Symantec CEO says source code reviews by foreign states p... by arkona on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:37PM (#15462524)
So... stripping the code of significant parts

This seems like a pretty good business model idea though!