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IDA: What's new in 7.00

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Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.

It's my understanding that people who have previously pirated it are blacklisted from every using the sw legally thereby potentially making it impossible to get a job in the industry.

that would seem to be a extremely stupid way of converting hobbyists into paying commercial users

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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A quick overview of what makes IDA cool for those unfamiliar with it: * It has one of the best decompilers available * It supports a ridiculous number of platforms * I trust its disassembler (especially for mainstream languages) more than almost any other disassembler * Demangling of Swift names is a nice quality of life improvement, Swift moves fast and is hard to keep up with * Still the best disassembler and machi…

> Hopper (mac only).

Hopper supports Linux since V3 :)

* https://www.hopperapp.com

* https://twitter.com/bSr43/status/851832213066973185

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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the prices are still kinda ridiculous for hobbyists. i realize those might not be the main customers.

It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.

I would be afraid to use a pirated version of this. Certainly the authors are experts in cracking and countermeasures. They could do sneaky stuff like pretending to work and then breaking later, or silently produce wrong output.

I heard a rumor that the cracked version calls home with your identity and blacklists you for life. Don't think it is true though. (Edit: I think what they do is they embed your key into saved files, and if a key leaks, blacklist it such that later versions cannot open them.)

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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A quick overview of what makes IDA cool for those unfamiliar with it: * It has one of the best decompilers available * It supports a ridiculous number of platforms * I trust its disassembler (especially for mainstream languages) more than almost any other disassembler * Demangling of Swift names is a nice quality of life improvement, Swift moves fast and is hard to keep up with * Still the best disassembler and machi…

It isn't as powerful as IDA but x64dbg is a free and open source debugger for Windows and a good goto for hobbyists imho - https://x64dbg.com

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.

It's my understanding that people who have previously pirated it are blacklisted from every using the sw legally thereby potentially making it impossible to get a job in the industry.

How do you even enforce such a policy? And who the hell is IDA run by? The Soup Nazi?

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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It's my understanding that people who have previously pirated it are blacklisted from every using the sw legally thereby potentially making it impossible to get a job in the industry.

What's your source on this? And what's preventing users from simply deleting the files/formatting their OS/getting a new e-mail?

Second paragraph of Hex-Ray's stance on piracy https://books.google.com/books?id=3nPAM3AZ1foC&pg=PA32&lpg=P...

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.

I have no first hand knowledge, but it is my understanding based on what others have told me that IDA Pro is actually kind of difficult to crack and pirate. I don't know how true this is, but it makes logical sense - the developers of a reverse-engineering tool are likely far more clever at anti-piracy mitigations than your average programmer.

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Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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A quick overview of what makes IDA cool for those unfamiliar with it: * It has one of the best decompilers available * It supports a ridiculous number of platforms * I trust its disassembler (especially for mainstream languages) more than almost any other disassembler * Demangling of Swift names is a nice quality of life improvement, Swift moves fast and is hard to keep up with * Still the best disassembler and machi…

If you're looking for a gui for radare2, https://github.com/hteso/iaito has worked well for me so far. Despite the warnings about it being highly unstable, I spent 4 hours in it reversing an arm binary and it worked perfectly fine.

Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00

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It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.

It's my understanding that people who have previously pirated it are blacklisted from every using the sw legally thereby potentially making it impossible to get a job in the industry.

If true, that would also scare me from using it legally. What if a glitch (perhaps due to a failing memory chip, or a bug on a modified kernel) makes it think I'm using a pirated version?
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