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Here reproduced by me. Only researchs educations purposes.",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":57,"motivation":58,"time_to_build":57,"stack":62,"openness":71,"stage":72,"team_size":73},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Makes the Stuxnet malware's code readable for research and education.","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",{"value":54,"source":49,"evidence":55},"Security researchers and students",[56],{"id":52},null,{"value":59,"source":49,"evidence":60},"Research and education purposes.",[61],{"id":52},[63],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"C","inferred",[67],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"49604514","rep_lodsb","This looks like slop, it's all concatenated into a single file and most probably not based on the actual malware. I'm fairly sure that for example the real one does not include…","open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":75,"objections":90,"requests":117,"questions":126,"alternatives":145},[76,82],{"value":77,"source":49,"evidence":78},"Readable code is a point of pride for the maker",[79],{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"49605431","Thanks,providing readable code for everyone is inherently a thing of pride.",{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Interesting and important piece of software","commenter",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"49604599","fathermarz","This is amazingly awesome. Very intriguing and what a great idea in the first place. One of the most important pieces of modern software IMO.",[91,102,109],{"value":92,"source":84,"evidence":93},"Code appears to be LLM-generated slop, not the real malware",[94,95,98],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"id":96,"by":69,"text":97},"49604787","And the Wikipedia article explains where the name came from, a combination of \".stub\" and \"mrxnet.sys\". Not one literal string as it appears several times in this purported…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"49605180","qarl","Yeah... you've convinced me. An reverse engineering LLM should\u002Fwould never invent literal strings in the code.",{"value":103,"source":84,"evidence":104},"Literal strings like registry keys do not match the original binary",[105,108],{"id":106,"by":69,"text":107},"49604576","But then did it hallucinate that registry key? Or this? ``` \"instance of ActiveScriptEventConsumer as $Consumer\\n\" \"{\\n\" \" Name = \\\"StuxnetConsumer\\\";\\n\" \" ScriptingEngine =…",{"id":96,"by":69,"text":97},{"value":110,"source":84,"evidence":111},"Poor navigation, code concatenated into one file",[112,116],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"49604618","broodbucket","If you're going to spend tokens on the RE for this, it would've been nice to spend some tokens documenting it or making it easier to navigate",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},[118],{"value":119,"source":84,"evidence":120},"Split code into modules and add documentation",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"49604006","joshka","If you're using coding agents for this, it may be worth splitting this up into multiple well arranged modules that tell a coherent story and make it easy to browse, and add…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},[127,138],{"value":128,"source":84,"evidence":129},"Where did the original binaries come from?",[130,134],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"49604815","tehjoker","Where did the binaries come from? 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