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Eh, clearly it raises the barrier to entry significantly. You’re never safe from a truly determined adversary, but you can keep out the riff raff.


Perhaps I'm a bit harsh... but my suggestion to fortune 500 tech company remains. Implement integrity validation as well, otherwise all it takes is editing 2 bytes to bypass your ssl pinning.


Right, but the threat model of SSL pinning is an attacker that has compromised the CA certificate store. The user editing a binary on disk is not a security problem.


Cool idea! Now it takes 2 bytes to bypass integrity validation, and 2 bytes to bypass cert pinning. (4 bytes in total)




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