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Re:You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open S... by mort96 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:55AM (#18012823)
Come on, nobody is preventing anyone from running the binary with strace or with wireshark open and comparing it to a version compiled from their sources. It's absolutely something which would've been relevant in a post like this one.
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Re:You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open S... by gnu8 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:39AM (#18015699)
None of that would fall under ‘reverse engineering’ in this context since those techniques are basic due diligence that would be required before running software from a disreputable source like Microsoft.
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