I'll admit, I've never reverse engineered an application by myself, but me and friends have. And I never saw myself as a serious threat, I was simply stating that going into the details of reverse engineering/disassembly was a topic that could be a serious threat(towards Dantom) if someone happens to get an idea and starts learning assembly, etc. (and happens to reverse engineer byond.)

I don't see what the threat would be :P. There is no way anyone is going to do any large scale manipulation of the machine code. Most the uses of breaking down a program in ASM are to break security checks and attempt to reverse engineer various algorithms to build seperate clients that mimick various functionality. Doing this to cheat in BYOND wouldn't get you much as clients are only sent the bare minimum of data for whats in their view and one tile outside of it.