IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
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IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
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Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#2I hope this doesn't lead to stagnation in the product with ever increasing licensing costs. IDA is expensive enough as it is.
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Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#4I hope this doesn't lead to stagnation in the product with ever increasing licensing costs. IDA is expensive enough as it is.
I think things can only get better. Right now it's hard enough to be allowed to buy the damn thing in the first place!
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#5I hope this doesn't lead to stagnation in the product with ever increasing licensing costs. IDA is expensive enough as it is.
I think they lost a lot of potential customers after NSA released Ghidra.
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#6I hope this doesn't lead to stagnation in the product with ever increasing licensing costs. IDA is expensive enough as it is.
I hope it does. It may direct more attention to Ghidra instead.
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#7Does anyone know what impact if any the release of Ghidra had on Hex-Rays?
IDA never really accommodated to the hobbyist, so I wonder did it have any impact on the commercial side of things apart from the IDA Home release?
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#8Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It's hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that's what they use at home and at school.
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#9Does anyone know what impact if any the release of Ghidra had on Hex-Rays? IDA never really accommodated to the hobbyist, so I wonder did it have any impact on the commercial side of things apart from the IDA Home release?
They accommodated them by it not being too hard to crack using itself, which must have had a commercial impact.
Re: IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
#10Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It's hard to convince an employer to fork…
For me I got the Company I was contracting for to buy me an IDA license and as I was trying to take over from there Hexrays never responded to any requests.
I'm guessing that I'm on the same pirate blacklist that a lot of people landed. I guess I should have expensed it instead of having the Company buy it. I was the only person doing RE work, it was a single user person license and I was also the only linux user out of that 300 people org.
I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can't get it.
On the other hand I really don't like the Ghidra user experience.
Is there something similar to FLIRT in r2 or ghidra?