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Retr0idyesterday at 9:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Tokens can also be burnt on decompilation.


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tptacekyesterday at 9:18 PM

Yes, and it apparently burns lots of tokens. But what I've heard is that the outcomes are drastically less expensive than hand-reversing was, when you account for labor costs.

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somesortofthingyesterday at 9:23 PM

Another asymmetric advantage for defenders - attackers need to burn tokens to form incomplete, outdated, and partially wrong pictures of the codebase while the defender gets the whole latest version plus git history plus documentation plus organizational memory plus original authors' cooperation for free.