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   by os_ 12y ago

   The problem is that such an effort would produce a cute academic toy with zero traction in the real world. Or looking at it from the other perspective - would you expect that Clang, Chrome, Mozilla folks just rewrite their projects? What ab
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   by os_ 12y ago

   I hear you. For the sake of completeness, here is the other side of the argument from students that use IDA for reverse engineering. Those activities are really about cracking freemium/shareware apps and the associated subculture is a
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   by os_ 12y ago

   AFAIK it was the first one that got the model right. The only other one I remember is Sourcer (sr) for MS-DOS.
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   by os_ 12y ago

   Right, both products are expensive. I get them through work (for work). You can get the free (and very limited) version of IDA for hobby stuff: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...
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   by os_ 12y ago

   The original and the most powerful disassembler is IDA Pro. The project was started in the 90s and has been used for security analysis, antivirus work, protection analysis/research, hacks as well as normal dev work in the closed-source