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[โ€“] BB_C@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should have told the auditors that stripping symbols is stupid and counterproductive instead of playing along. That segfault a user managed to hit once and only once with their self-built binary, and that useless core file that was left behind, shall hunt you in your dreams forever.

And I love how that commit was merged with the comment "A further reduced binary size! ๐ŸŽ‰". Exhibit number #5464565465767 why caring that much about "dependency bloat" and binary sizes always was, and always will be, a result of collective mania in action.

[โ€“] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but removing these symbols might make reverse engineering of the binary harder.

That's the dumbest reasoning ever.

[โ€“] fil@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Conspiracy theory: the workgroup found an RCE vulnerability and assigned it identifier CLN-002 but never disclosed it to public and instead sold it to (CIA|DHL|MiB)