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		a2code on March 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM Why Python? First, python is a language with a large open-source library. Second, I do not think it is used for software that is distributed as binaries?

Retr0id on March 18, 2024 [–]

Closed-source python exists, and it is frequently distributed in compiled binaries (especially in mediocre malware).

As a (supposedly) non-malicious example, the "Nightshade" watermarking tool is distributed as closed-source pre-compiled Python https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

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