IDA: What's new in 7.00
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IDA: What's new in 7.00
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Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#2the prices are still kinda ridiculous for hobbyists. i realize those might not be the main customers.
Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#3A 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 machine code reversing tool out there
If you can't afford IDA, it is very expensive, there are a lot of great alternatives:
* Hopper (mac only). Its disassembler, is not so great, it gets confused and fails to find code in Swift apps pretty often. It is still generally good and with some encouragement you can get it to do a competent job.
* radare2. Works on a lot of more esoteric processors. Great for when working on small firmwares from less common processors. Not so great at big files. Slow. Very powerful regardless. Open source.
* ImmunityDbg still works for Win
* Other tools, just search.
The more time you spend looking at disassembled machine code the more valuable IDA gets. But you really have to do a lot of RCE. Most people first getting into RCE really think they need IDA when they haven't even cracked the docs for their target environment yet or lack fundamental knowledge about how CPUs work, which holds them back far more than a second class disassembler ever has.
Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#4Ilfak, hire someone to proofread the release notes!
Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#5the prices are still kinda ridiculous for hobbyists. i realize those might not be the main customers.
It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.
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#7the prices are still kinda ridiculous for hobbyists. i realize those might not be the main customers.
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.
Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#8the 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 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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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What's your source on this? And what's preventing users from simply deleting the files/formatting their OS/getting a new e-mail?
Re: IDA: What's new in 7.00
#10what is this used for?