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Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by imiric on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:25PM (#38525363)
I'm as paranoid about this as you, but this type of verification seems easier today with AI tools. I'm not aware of any that do this, but if LLMs can give insight about what a piece of code is doing, they can surely be trained to detect possible suspicious behavior. Perhaps even by inspecting a binary, but certainly by processing code.
Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by meesles on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:58PM (#38525656)
I think that's a great use-case. I'd love a real-time security scanning system covering as many open source projects out there as possible.
Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by krpl on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:28PM (#38525394)
Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by lxgr on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:40PM (#38527170)
Maybe for well-intended code (and even there I have my doubts – the halting problem says hi!), but most definitely not for malicious backdoors at this point.