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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Why can't you go back

You sort of can, there are de-compilers like Ghidra that can help with this, but it usually takes a lot of manual effort to properly decode.

the same set of 1s and 0s could be made from different types of source code

Yeah, basically. Companies will also take extra steps to make it so people can't get source code from software, since it's their proprietary IP and whatever.

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