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macos is most popular with security folks. Programmers into security and *nix exploit devs might be into it from the small sample I observed. Even among very te
by _8j50 4y ago
macos is most popular with security folks. Programmers into security and *nix exploit devs might be into it from the small sample I observed. Even among very technical infosec people windows is still their daily driver but macs are in close competition. The more software security focused people are the more unixy they get I guess?
- markus_zhang 4y agoThanks, I'm thinking more about malware reverse engineering, so I guess Windows is the primary playground, but I assume it's mostly running in a VM.
- _8j50 4y agoDepends, I do some of that and know others as well. Your primary OS is up to you but a windows guest is mandatory for a malware lab(flare-vm for me) , in most cases a linux vm is also useful as a network proxy for fakedns and pals (remnux is the popular distro). Most reverse engineers live in MS docs though for windows stuff. Plenty of Linux/mac RE too if your job allows you to encounter them. Some like vmware on windows, I do either vbox on windows or fusion on mac. Actually, it isn't uncommon to have multiple laptops one mac and others windows.