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Are you suggesting that a 3kb update be tested 3k times to assess the impact of each possible bit flip, and 9M times for the impact of each possible pair bit flips?

Because I think that's effort better spent in other ways.



Not remotely. I am aware of the state space explosion and the difficulty with brute forcing the testing. I am suggesting that the damage a broken antivirus update can do should be restricted.




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