Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
by phendrenad2 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:07PM
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Remember that anyone can manually decompile Microsoft source code. It's a lengthy tedious process, but that's nothing for a determined attacker.
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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
by ipython on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:42PM
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That’s not nearly comparable to commented source code repo. “Decompiling” leaves you with a barely readable facsimile of the original code, and most likely won’t even compile again.
The true value in source code at this level are the comments and symbols. Microsoft provides most ofthe symbols, the comments you can’t recover from a binary.