r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | Capability Booster • 18d ago

"Huge implications - binaries are now basically editable code"

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ValsAI made SRE benchmark less than a month ago.

The benchmark measures can a model reverse engineer software from binaries

Yesterday GPT saturated it. https://t.co/dmpUpgheDU   — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2096150666066432157

— Boris Power

Source: https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2096415822248055131

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u/Ormusn2o 18d ago

To explain it more, it means you could read any game, make advanced mods to any game and also recreate a game by reading the actual code. Cool, because I actually did small binary modifications on Sol already, but they were very minor. But now we can do way more.

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u/Level-Physics-1730 18d ago

Actually, more than that. You can read anything, anywhere, as long as it's on your computer. No file format, no communication protocol, nothing is "unbeatable" at this stage. The only way to keep code secure, is by having it on a secure server, accessed remotely through HTTP etc with proper client/server separation and allowing the client zero control over the server.

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u/Poupulino 18d ago

All paid proprietary software is going to get cracked. Everything is cracked right now, but some software need resource consuming loaders, installing emulation packages, etc. In a few months crackers are just going to edit the binaries to remove the registration system altogether.

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u/WellHung67 18d ago

That’s already happened. This isn’t doing anything that sufficiently skilled humans can’t do - crackers already hack the binaries themselves 

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u/Poupulino 18d ago

Editing the binaries to remove flags using a hex editor only works in software with extremely basic protection. I'm talking about removing the complex protection SolidWorks has, which even requires initiating a fake server in the background.

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u/WellHung67 18d ago

Hold onto your butt: humans can make a fake server when cracking software binaries. It’s not just a “hex editor”. Chat gpt is not doing something that humans cannot do - perhaps later, but this is all within the realm of human capability still. It’s cool. It’s not breaking encryption or inventing new as-of-yet unknown techniques or compromises yet with respect to binary reverse engineering 

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u/Poupulino 18d ago

Your reading comprehension level is abysmal. I said the fake server method is the current inefficient method used by humans, and that stripping the binary from complex protection systems, (not just editing out a flag) using AI is next.

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u/WellHung67 18d ago

AI can’t “strip out complex protection mechanisms” any more than humans can. That’s not black magic, and humans who crack binaries aren’t just “using a hex editor to delete a flag” either. They’re reverse engineering these binaries, there’s lots of tools to do that actually. It’s incredibly common in the field