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Why would anyone use a third-party web service to carry out cyber analysis? These tasks are easy enough to do/code.
by floki999 7y ago
Why would anyone use a third-party web service to carry out cyber analysis? These tasks are easy enough to do/code.
- United857 7y agoYou can easily download the code and host your own instance.
- andylynch 7y agoIt even runs locally from files - doesn’t need network access at all.
- cos2pi 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 seems relevant here.
- invokestatic 7y agoI may be just naive, but I trust and regularly use both Cyberchef and NSA’s Ghidra. I think it’s very unlikely that these tools are backdoored (and Cyberchef runs completely in-browser).
- buildzr 7y agoIf you've ever looked at the way the NSA treats exploits, remote access software and such, they're very careful about deploying them against people who may be able to detect and analyze them themselves. Putting such things in public code like that which would both directly point the finger at them and possibly turning secrets into widespread knowledge in the security community would be... incredibly stupid.
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- floki999 7y agoOk, fair enough, I appreciate the answers to my question - why on earth would I get docked 4 points for asking a question is a mystery though.. whoever you are.
- Godel_unicode 7y ago"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- floki999 7y agoYes, I know the guidelines. Not helpful.