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Re: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

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Redis. Sidekiq.

Sidekiq charges for their Enterprise plan which starts at $179 per month, Redis offers paid Commercial Support. The money always comes from somewhere...

Yeah, the question was about getting paid to develop open source software.

The answer is, sell support.

Re: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

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Can anyone speculate as to why the NSA decided to release this? Have they released any OSS in the past?

Yes they have. Their biggest effort to date is SELinux: https://github.com/SELinuxProject

If you run Linux, you likely have NSA OSS on your machine.

You can find their public GitHub profile at: https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency

Re: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

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If you are using these tools you are either defending systems from threats or breaking into systems and making money through illegal activities. There is not really any other useful work you can do with these tools. I don’t see how the perspective is odd. Having tools like Core Impact and the knowledge of how to use them well can propel you to a six figure income easily. On top of that these tools are also business e…

Google "video game modding ida". Then think about the fact that some people are poor and can't float thousands of dollars long enough to learn and get employed with tools like this.

and to be quite honest, its just fun to me to reverse a program

Re: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

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It's not Open Source.

If you have any pointers to a company / individual making a living building open source tools for developers please let me know. (Working for a large cloud / OS provider that is subsidizing tool development as part of a platform play does not count).

There are examples which other commenters have already given you, I see. What I'm curious about is why this matters; obviously we as users care about having open-source tooling (and we are in a thread discussing one such tool). Whether or not we can come up with examples of this off the cuff is completely immaterial to the constraint that proposed tools should be open-source.

Re: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

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If you are using these tools you are either defending systems from threats or breaking into systems and making money through illegal activities. There is not really any other useful work you can do with these tools. I don’t see how the perspective is odd. Having tools like Core Impact and the knowledge of how to use them well can propel you to a six figure income easily. On top of that these tools are also business e…

Google "video game modding ida". Then think about the fact that some people are poor and can't float thousands of dollars long enough to learn and get employed with tools like this.

I don't think about those people, here's why:

1) No one is entitled to a career in cybersecurity or reverse engineering, no matter how poor or sad your origin story is.

2) There are always lucrative opportunities in this world that are out of reach by people who lack some resource. In this case, it's money, but it could easily just have been something like popularity, beauty, connections, location, or even plain old brains.

I always wanted to be popular and loved by many, but I came to accept long ago that it just wasn't going to happen. I'm an introvert, I keep to myself a lot, don't get much pleasure from social outings, and at the end of the day people just don't give a fuck about weird people like that. So I just try to enjoy the gifts I do have and the things that come naturally to me. We all have to accept the realities of our lives at some point, even the poor.

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