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sneurlax • today at 4:07 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

You can still run it in a VM and access files on disk. Or if they're 1337 haxorz and keep the game in RAM you can still inspect RAM

There's no way to deliver a running program which you can't decompile aiui.

Like literally last night I did this to decompile an Android game whose APK on the Play Store is just a thin wrapper that downloads the real Unity game at runtime. It was a 30 second barrier


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CharlesW • today at 4:25 PM

> There's no way to deliver a running program which you can't decompile aiui.

This may be straightforward on Android, but is it on iOS?

"No way to deliver a running program which you can't decompile" seems less like a rule of nature than the way it happens to work now. I don't think it's extreme to imagine that likely a side effect of this AI-driven gold rush to "free the IP" will be the further lockdown of general purpose computing.

BugsJustFindMe • today at 4:09 PM

Screen-sharing, not code-sharing.

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