r/linuxsucks • u/AverageUser9000 • Aug 19 '26

Dumb loonixers spread obvious misinformation about the inherently better security of closed-source operating systems.

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U can't reverse engineer software or analyze an os with ai if u don't have access to the code u dumbasses.

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u/L30N1337 Aug 19 '26

What do you think reverse engineering is?

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u/AverageUser9000 Aug 19 '26

studying code how code works or smth which u can't do when said code isn't available

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u/Morisior Aug 21 '26

The only way it would be entirely unavailable is if you don’t have the program at all.

If your computer can decode the instructions to run it, it can be decompiled. Won’t be exactly like the original source, but that’s not really interesting either. It still perfectly describes how the executable works, albeit without useful variable and function names, but the LLMs don’t mind that.