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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by Thaxll on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:48PM (#18828473)
Most likely not. Since everyone uses IDA I don't think there is anything better. ( also NSA probably also use IDA )
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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by burfog on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:13PM (#18829462)
GHIDRA 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.

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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by andrewflnr on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:42PM (#18829353)
That's one of the more blatant ad populum fallacies I've seen in a long time.
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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by MrXOR on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:02PM (#18828573)
Yes, right now I see that even CIA loves IDA[1]. ida is unique.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_3375335.html

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