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Re:A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition by cjbprime on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:18PM (#25556105)
An open source project used by people capable of analyzing the network and disk I/O of binaries they run doesn't sound like a good target -- if something was found it would have massive consequences.
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Re:A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition by dboreham on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:03AM (#25556834)
Backdoors from TLAs don't look like backdoors.
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Re:A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition by cjbprime on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:44AM (#25557021)
People who use Ghidra know that backdoors from TLAs don't look like backdoors.
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Re:A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition by AJRF on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:22AM (#25558096)
I wouldn't say this is true at all, there are lots of kids out there who will cut their teeth with this seeing as it is entirely free.

Also, it is as if people forget the launch of Ghidra; https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/6

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Re:A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition by cjbprime on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:49PM (#25565748)
Hiding a backdoor requires hiding it from every user who might publicize it, not some users.

Your issue (which is barely a vulnerability at all, in my personal opinion) demonstrates a failure to hide a vulnerability, if you think it was intentionally-placed (which I don't), in that you quickly learned about it.

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