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I know I tweet alot about IDA. That's because I used to be an instructor, and realize how difficult it can be for new reversers to become accustomed to it (and to learn RE generally). But, owning IDA is not a barrier for entry into the RE community. #reverseengineering 1/5
There's tools like Ghidra, Radare, x64dbg, Windbg, gdb that are all free. Binary Ninja comes in at a much lower price point if you get a personal license. You can also download IDA Free, if you'd like to become more familiar with IDA. 2/5
The fact is reverse engineering is a process, and each of these tools facilitates that process in different ways, sometimes for the better, and sometimes not so much. If you give an experienced RE any one of these tools, given some spinup time, they'd still get the job done. 3/5
It's also not a barrier to get a job (at any company that knows what's up). I've never worked for a company that said, "You must use IDA and only IDA". Before my first job, I had little exposure to IDA, and most of my experience was limited to reading flat disassembly traces. 4/5
So at first, I ended up using IDA as a fancy notepad, only using comments. No type annotations, no adding cross-refs, no scripting etc. But I learned it over time. (5/6)
My point here is don't let IDA's price point discourage you from learning more about this field. There's more to RE than just one tool. (6/6)
Whoops, looks like I annotated the message count in this thread incorrectly. Sorry, y'all.
