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There are better solutions than that. Off the top of my head, on Linux, you could get what the article is asking for by doing a readlink on /proc/self/exe.

The crappy software exists because the people who write it don't have any idea what they're doing. And the reason for that is that the people who found companies in the security space have discovered that nobody can tell whether their products really work or not, so they can save money on talent and training.




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