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Almost every hobbyist reverse engineer uses cracked IDA which is easily available. I have never seen ghidra being recommended for serious work.
by flipped 7mo ago
Almost every hobbyist reverse engineer uses cracked IDA which is easily available. I have never seen ghidra being recommended for serious work.
- q3k 7mo agoI recommend it for serious work. Well, serious enough that I got paid for doing it, and/or given talks about it. (not if you're only doing x86/ARM stuff, though)
- bri3d 7mo agoAgree. IDA is surely the “primary” tool for anything that runs on an OS on a common arch, but once you get into embedded Ghidra is heavily used for serious work and once you get to heavily automation based scenarios or obscure microarchitectures it’s the best solution and certainly a “serious” product used by “real” REs.
- IAmLiterallyAB 7mo agoAnd everyone uses Ghidra exclusively where I work. I'd say we're a serious operation
- jki275 7mo agoThe NSA doesn't do serious work?
- ARandomerDude 7mo agoThat wasn't the claim. Ability + interest + time + budget + ... are what makes a serious tool.
- lima 7mo agoThis is changing, Ghidra is increasingly replacing IDA for commercial work.
- userbinator 7mo agoCracking IDA yourself was, and maybe still is, a "rite of passage" in certain communities.