Ptacek: AI Kills Reverse-Engineering Barriers, Top Work Will Go Open Source

Security researcher Thomas Ptacek argues that AI has reduced the barrier to reverse engineering to nearly zero, making anti-piracy efforts largely pointless. He predicts a split in the industry: companies losing to compute gaps will fail, while top results will go open source as open-sourcing becomes easy.

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