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"Several layers of masking obscured the zero-day exploit inside, requiring work to reach it, and the malware was huge — 500k bytes, as opposed to the usual 10k to 15k." - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detecti...

This is a great read and very informative!



Yes it is, but your parent post was asking how they knew how large the source code was. This quotation is reporting the size of the final binary.


Where did the article say 'source code'? Machine code is still 'code'.

You have to consider the audience the NY Times is targeting. Just knowing what a compiler is puts one in relatively sparse company.




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