The largest program I ever had to reverse engineer was 40,000 lines. That was about 4" thick of fan-fold paper. At 10,000 lines per inch 17 million must be a pile about 140' tall!
And I suspect that the operating system, all system utilities, drivers etc would be extra. The malicious code could even be on a USB drive that was only present during the election. The possibilities are endless.
It's bloated for a reason. I have no idea how the Brazilian military could get through it all in a timely manner. That's probably what the crooks are counting on.
And with 17 million lines of code, there sure are many places to hide suspicious code!
The largest program I ever had to reverse engineer was 40,000 lines. That was about 4" thick of fan-fold paper. At 10,000 lines per inch 17 million must be a pile about 140' tall!
And I suspect that the operating system, all system utilities, drivers etc would be extra. The malicious code could even be on a USB drive that was only present during the election. The possibilities are endless.
It's bloated for a reason. I have no idea how the Brazilian military could get through it all in a timely manner. That's probably what the crooks are counting on.