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It was in CIA Vault 7 documents[1]: Its purty cool ---> Q: Is it a serious competitor for IDA Pro? [1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_51183656.html htt
by MrXOR 8y ago
It was in CIA Vault 7 documents[1]: Its purty cool ---> Q: Is it a serious competitor for IDA Pro?
[1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_51183656.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_51183656.html
- Thaxll 8y agoMost likely not. Since everyone uses IDA I don't think there is anything better. ( also NSA probably also use IDA )
- MrXOR 8y agoYes, right now I see that even CIA loves IDA[1]. ida is unique. [1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_3375335.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_3375335.html
- andrewflnr 8y agoThat's one of the more blatant ad populum fallacies I've seen in a long time.
- burfog 8y agoGHIDRA is good. In some ways it beats IDA Pro. People didn't choose IDA Pro just for quality. GHIDRA was highly restricted. Even the people with access to GHIDRA were hesitant, because they didn't want to learn a tool that they couldn't take to another employer. The other players in this market, binja (Binary Ninja) and Hopper Disassembler, are much newer. Inertia keeps them back. Imagine introducing a new editor, like vi or emacs, but with everything just a bit different. It could even be a slightly better editor. Uptake will be slow. People don't want to relearn or repurchase. Until recently, normal people could only choose IDA Pro. You paid, or you had to suffer with awful substitutes like Radare2 and objdump.
- gruez 8y ago>IDA Pro I think you meant hex-rays decompiler (which is a separate product).
- MrXOR 8y agoHex-Rays decompiler is an extension for IDA disassembler