Do you mean that bad actors can reverse engineer photoshop and hack its users or that bad actors can whip out plausible photoshop clone with vulnerabilities and backdoors and hack users with that?
I mean that proprietary software can be reverse engineered, there are many ways that this can affect vendors and end users. Both your examples could be some attack vectors.
Think more broadly than Adobe and any company that relies on a software product could have their business model destroyed overnight. More broadly than that, you could rupture trust between suppliers and vendors if they don't know who's really making requests from a proprietary platform that's been compromised unknowingly.
I mean that proprietary software can be reverse engineered, there are many ways that this can affect vendors and end users. Both your examples could be some attack vectors.
Think more broadly than Adobe and any company that relies on a software product could have their business model destroyed overnight. More broadly than that, you could rupture trust between suppliers and vendors if they don't know who's really making requests from a proprietary platform that's been compromised unknowingly.