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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).
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Yeah, my mouse was hovering over the download button eager to test it out when my brain suddenly went "wait, don't do that!" If you wanna run this thing, you should probably build it from source yourself (don't trust the binaries) and even then run it in a pretty well sandboxed virtual machine. I would not be surprised at all if the NSA left some surprises in that thing.
I hope you don't use Linux, because the NSA contributes to quite a lot of OSS. They also created SELinux for instance.
- Many people don't use SELinux, especially on distros like Arch, Gentoo etc. where it (luckily) doesn't come as part of the package, SELinux is far from universal.
RCE included ;) https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/6
Sure, it might be a great tool for free, but who knows what else might be hidden in there?
Is it odd that this is written in Java? What advantages does this have?
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All software should be free, The marginal cost of one more user is exactly zero
> All software should be free, The marginal cost of one more user is exactly zero All bridges should be free, The marginal cost of one more user is effectively zero.
Is it odd that this is written in Java? What advantages does this have?
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Good point... "we need a site license. No, I can't tell you for how many employees, that's classified. No, I can't tell you who we are, that's classified. No, I can't tell you what we are working on, that's classified. Hello? Hello? Darn they hung up again..."
I think all three letter agencies create front companies for this kind of stuff?