Is DRM going to work considering how good LLMs are in reverse engineering? I would say it is a fools errand at this point.

It is always cracking me up when Republicans are pointing on anyone left from the center like a guy is some kind maosist about to seize the means of production. And then they will turn around and offer you 5000 USD per vote if they win.

Not even the thickest european left wing populists would dare to say anything like that...

The U.S voting cohort is uniquely stupid and/or apathetic.

It sure seems that it doesn't take much. Kevin O'Leary gets people to lend him money to build data centers from being on a TV show. A disturbingly large number of people think Trump is a business genius because of his TV show. Elon Musk looks very legit by comparison.

I will give you one better - encrypt the variables and move the secrets to a different server running hashicorp. Then load the secrets and keep them only in RAM.

Does Hashicorp actually employ any software engineers any more? I'm saying this having tried to deploy their product in an enterprise environment for the past couple of years. Almost nothing in their development, build, or delivery chain seems functional.

Or env1 is the key to decrypt env2

So people will be running reverse engineering through openrouter and similar or local inference while Anthropic is severely crippling cyber security usefulness of their products. Feels like own goal.

Foldables to me look like a fad. People are using them now because it looks cool, but I have seen people to return back to normal phones due to unreliability of foldables.

I have noticed that too. Even here on hacker news people are bragging to burn through 100usd of tokens per hour while I know about friend who has forced Claude Code to write complete MCU emulator with peripherals including HSM just from leaked firmware and reference manual for less than 50Eur whole project.

I agree with reliability of software getting so much better. I still remember Windows Millennium (Something between 98 but not Windows 2000) and it has been a mess.

Further more I still remember software developers in the 2000s who just refused to do any kind of testing on produced software, because it is just a waste of time. It compiles? It ships!

Not many people are such cowboys today.

> Not many people are such cowboys today.

Now-day, it is the llm that write tests. Nobody look at it and verify if it is meaningful. If the test pass, ship it.

It still cowboys days

Sure, but last year I had to reinstall Windows because they did not bother to test USB input devices on their new "recovery" feature: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windows11/th...

All it had to do was run Check Disk, but it kept going in a loop every 30 minutes checking their "AI" for solutions, finding none. There was no way to get out of it.

I am sorry, but even in the worst days of Windows, this would have been a huge deal. This was the last straw so I installed Mint to play games.

Claude Code for coding and DeepSeek + opencode for reverse engineering at this point.

DeepSeek will break the binary into code and Claude will search for problems. Now you have most of exploitation chain.

Can you share the details of your stack? I have some obscure commercial Windows software from 90s I wish to run. Claude refuses any RE attempts.

Dude they just did. If you didn't understand it then you aren't gonna be able to use it.

Claude is happily reverse engineering for me, a recently sunsetted mobile game and an old PlayStation game. If it doesn’t moralize at you and refuse to do it, it’s easier to use the smarter model on the subsidized subscription. I’m doing as much as I can now before they start refusing.

I'm also interested in your setup!

ISA - iOS subsystem for Android

You mean the Android subsystem for iOS?

I confirm, first down for me after 4 years of usage. Got little scared at first that I had my account blocked...