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> you're unwilling to concede anything

I've already conceded that I am ignorant of many of the details of modern reverse-engineering techniques, so that is manifestly untrue.

> you're not even in the ballpark of correct

You keep saying that, and yet you don't back this up with any details or supporting arguments. In what way am I incorrect? Is my estimate too high? Too low? By how much? Am I wrong when I claim that a lower bound on the computational complexity of auditing is O(n)? If so, what is the correct result? Is it O(sqrt(n))? O(log(n))? O(1)?

BTW, I would actually love to be convinced that I'm wrong about this. That would be a huge two-fold win for me. It would mean that 1) I can stop worrying about security (as long as I use an iPhone) and 2) I would learn something new and almost certainly very interesting. But you (or someone) have to tell me how and why I am wrong, not just that I am wrong.

It would also help if you would stop stop advancing logical fallacies like this straw man:

> cosmic rays make all of information security in some ways unknowable

I don't understand why you're more comfortable discussing this on Slack, but OK, I've fired up my Slack client.



I don't want to pretend that there's a meaningful relationship between image size and reversing challenge, but to the extent there is, it's something more like O(log n).




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