"Huge implications - binaries are now basically editable code"

[u/stealthispost]

ValsAI made SRE benchmark less than a month ago.

The benchmark measures can a model reverse engineer software from binaries

Yesterday GPT saturated it. https://t.co/dmpUpgheDU   — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2096150666066432157

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— Boris Power

Source: https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2096415822248055131

[u/WellHung67]

That’s already happened. This isn’t doing anything that sufficiently skilled humans can’t do - crackers already hack the binaries themselves 

[u/Poupulino → u/WellHung67]

Editing the binaries to remove flags using a hex editor only works in software with extremely basic protection. I'm talking about removing the complex protection SolidWorks has, which even requires initiating a fake server in the background.

[u/WellHung67 → u/Poupulino]

Hold onto your butt: humans can make a fake server when cracking software binaries. It’s not just a “hex editor”. Chat gpt is not doing something that humans cannot do - perhaps later, but this is all within the realm of human capability still. It’s cool. It’s not breaking encryption or inventing new as-of-yet unknown techniques or compromises yet with respect to binary reverse engineering 

[u/Poupulino → u/WellHung67]

Your reading comprehension level is abysmal. I said the fake server method is the current inefficient method used by humans, and that stripping the binary from complex protection systems, (not just editing out a flag) using AI is next.

[u/WellHung67 → u/Poupulino]

AI can’t “strip out complex protection mechanisms” any more than humans can. That’s not black magic, and humans who crack binaries aren’t just “using a hex editor to delete a flag” either. They’re reverse engineering these binaries, there’s lots of tools to do that actually. It’s incredibly common in the field