<story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that I&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I really don&amp;#x27;t like the Ghidra user experience.&lt;p&gt;Is there something similar to FLIRT in r2 or ghidra?</text></item><item><author>pseudo0</author><text>Hopefully 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&amp;#x27;s hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that&amp;#x27;s what they use at home and at school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grzaks</author><text>&amp;gt; I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;Many years ago we wanted to buy IDA Pro license and were quickly declined because we had whois privacy protection enabled on our domain.</text></comment>
<story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that I&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;I think there are a lot of people that would like to pay for IDA but can&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I really don&amp;#x27;t like the Ghidra user experience.&lt;p&gt;Is there something similar to FLIRT in r2 or ghidra?</text></item><item><author>pseudo0</author><text>Hopefully 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&amp;#x27;s hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that&amp;#x27;s what they use at home and at school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deroad</author><text>Rizin (and Cutter) does fully support FLIRT. You can create and load them, we also provide sigdb which is a collection of FLIRT files created by us (and yes, they are 100% compatible with IDA if you ever want to use them).
- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;cutter&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.1.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;cutter&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.1.0&lt;/a&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;rizin&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v0.4.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;rizin&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v0.4.0&lt;/a&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;sigdb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rizinorg&amp;#x2F;sigdb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;beware that these are not the latest versions.</text></comment>