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Wow, did you really have access to IDA as a kid? Even with adult money it seems expensive to me.
by dinobones 2y ago
Wow, did you really have access to IDA as a kid? Even with adult money it seems expensive to me.
- metalcrow 2y agoEveryone pirated IDA as a young reverse engineer, that's just a rite of passage.
- stevekemp 2y agoNumega's SoftIce for me, but I always preferred interactive exploration over static disassembly. Disassembling a large binary would get you a massive text file that was painful to navigate - and often times I'd find that the code I was interested in removing "Invalid license key" (ahem) would be stored in some unrelated DLL. So for me setting breakpoints on MessageBoxEx, and similar things, was by far the quickest and easiest way to go.
- chc4 2y agoMost people used a cracked old version of IDA. I actually just used the freeware version, which was ancient and didn't come with any decompiler. Which was definitely difficult, and people having access to Ghidra for free these days is definitely a lot better!