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Quitte frankly, the article doesn't amount to much - the video is worth clicking the link! This is what all the Folding at Home is all about!
https://www.rt.com/news/488669-coronavirus-structure-detail-video/
You can now look at the SARS-CoV-2 virus up close – at the atomic level, in fact – thanks to a scientifically accurate 3D model created by a biomedical visualization studio with the help of leading virologists.
The video by Visual Science, which is just over a minute long, lends fresh insight into the intricate structure of the deadly virus by painstakingly detailing how it functions – and how our bodies fight it. At the start of the video, we are told that the novel coronavirus at the center of the ongoing pandemic is a mere 1/1,000th the width of a human hair. Thanks to cutting-edge modelling tech, though, we are able to see the molecular structure of the virus up close.
Link to YouTube video.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 15 2020, @03:25AM (8 children)
You know how to decompile files? If you're really interested, tear the software down, and look at it. Decompiling was a thing more than 20 years ago, when we were "hacking" silly Windows 95 games and other silly shitzls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @04:10AM (3 children)
Decompiling was a thing back when a 32kb .COM file was considered a robust and useful application. Programs are a hundred thousand times bigger now. Nobody in their right mind does it anymore unless they have a huge pile of government contract money paying for it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 15 2020, @04:20AM (2 children)
Oh yeah, I remember now. That's how we got DVD-CSS. It was all paid for with government contracts. NOT!!
(Score: 2) by ledow on Friday May 15 2020, @02:34PM (1 child)
DVD-CSS was cracked by someone plucking a fixed global key from a known path in a program that didn't take any effort to prevent that.
If you'd said AACS, you would be closer, but you'd also see that there is an extreme amount of effort put into making AACS titles work still - and some of them still don't.
It's the difference between plucking a built-in decryption key out of an unprotected binary that loads it into memory, and reverse-engineering the entire encryption scheme from decompiled assembly alone... they are very, very different things.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 15 2020, @04:11PM
I'm not going to argue coding, because I ain't no coder. But I have disassembled and browsed through some code. Yeah, I was mostly following instructions, that I found on the intartubez.
In this case, FAHClient, it's not a huge file. We already know that it must contain some mathematics pointers to libraries, if not containing some libraries of it's own (or are those all to be found in the cores?). I mean, we know going in basically what it is, and what we might expect to find inside.
Am I to believe that it's beyond the reach of any Soylentils to take it apart, and to step through the code, to figure out what it does? Kinda busy at the moment, or I'd take a stab at it to see how far I can get in an afternoon.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday May 15 2020, @05:07AM (2 children)
A recent case I discussed here was giving up on what you described because the only way to decompile that thing was to disassemble it. It would have cost many many times more time and money having a consultant or two that knew all three of advanced electromagnetics, numeric methods of math simulation, and assembly language.
The corporation could have paid $10,000 or more of consultant costs to get the guts of executable figured out, or they could (and did) pay me less than $100 in labor costs just to wrap the goddamn thing and its lookup tables into a C# GUI application even an Indian could have coded.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @06:02AM (1 child)
If it is still relevant, you could try using the NSA decompiling tool, Ghidra. It is FLOSS and is much better than most things that came before it. It is amazing how much headway can be seen in the last 9 months in the different reverse engineering projects I follow.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday May 15 2020, @06:54AM
Yeech, I appreciate the recommendation and have modded you up but I wanted to see that GIT repo before downloading and was quite horrified at what I saw. Any combination of GIT, Gradle, and Eclipse is a warning sign that it will take at least a week of fiddling even after compilation to work on a modern machine. I'd made a joke about Indians in the previous comment, well, Ghidra is what happens when you outsource your NSA tools to India. I can't say I'm impressed, though I'll give it a shot should I encounter any "black box" executables in the future.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday May 15 2020, @09:51PM
Damn son, you are still wet behind the ears.
I remember using machine language monitors to look at the compiled code on Commodore Vic-20s, Commodore 64s, and Apple ][e computers 35 years ago.
And I am sure there were others doing similar things before that with their osbournes, vax, and mainframes.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P