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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by sedatk on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:19PM (#48071106)
They're not encoded, but the code blocks are shuffled. That's why disassembly does look straightforward, but it used to thwart BinDiff at the time.
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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by dataflow on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:16PM (#48071473)
What made you believe this is the case? any examples/links/etc.?
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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by sedatk on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:43PM (#48071617)
It was a part of our Windows build process when I was at Microsoft. I only assumed that they would keep doing it, but they might have as well dropped the practice.
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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by cstdr on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:02AM (#48075063)
I don't see how that can be useful when Microsoft publishes debug symbols for almost everything.
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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by j16sdiz on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:35AM (#48072108)
If I understand correctly, that is just randomness comes from parallel compiling and linking.

If you saying there is a whole step just scrambling blobs, i will be very surprised.

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Re:AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures by shakna on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:41AM (#48074539)
That sounds a lot like US9116712, but I don't think its ever been publicly said that Windows does this.
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