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It's pretty hard to prove what anyone is doing with closed source code.
Could be batched, could be encrypted, could be bundled with other data etc etc
Decompilers: Are we a joke to you?
I'd still agree with his statement. Subset of people who could even make the determination in available source code is small compared to total users, now reduce that set to people competent in reverse engineering. "pretty hard" is not a bad description imo