On: Leaked cables suggest China Access to Microsoft source used for cyber attacks

[jjguy]

Everything's open source, it's just written in assembly.

[tptacek → jjguy]

I might say "control flow graphs" instead of "assembly". Not to be pedantic, but to dispel the notion that reversers are literally reading every opcode in the program.

[eru → jjguy]

Being able to read source is not the same as open source. (That's where the term `free software' and it's conotations are useful.)