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ELI5: What kind of security mechanisms do software companies use to ensure that the source code of their products will be practically impossible to discover? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 8 months ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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Exemple: How does Apple guarantee that the iOS source code will not be discovered by an adversary?

Is there any type of different encryption for this case?

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

People here talking about decompiling code. Maybe you meant to ask how they're certain it's not stolen from home base?

All our goods are hidden behind a VPN or MFA (multi-factor authentication). Unless someone does something stupid, you're not getting in our BitBucket or AWS account.

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