I am totally blind and want to learn to do reverse engineering so I can advance my career. Unfortunately, IDA, Immunity and Ollydbg are all not accessible to a blind person using a screenreader.Are there any good alternatives on both windows and Linux for these tools?I have used gdb on Linux a little and windbg on windows as well.I just need a recommendation on what is industry standard if the three biggies can't be used?Thanks,Don
best alternatives to IDA, Immunity and Ollydbg for a blind user
ida;ollydbg;tools
You can use gdb on Linux, WinDBG, and could give a try to radare2: it's not as rock-stable as the two previous ones, but it's tailored for reverse engineering, and supports gdb:// and windbg:// protocols ;) All of them have a textual interface that should be suitable for braille-interfaces.But I guess that the killer-feature of radare2 for blind people is that it has ascii control-flow graphs:                       =------------------------------------------------------=                       | [0x400536]                                           |                       | main:                                                |                       | (fcn) sym.main 50                                    |                       | ; arg int arg_0_2      @ rbp+0x2                     |                       | ; var int local_0_1    @ rbp-0x1                     |                       | push rbp                                             |                       | mov rbp, rsp                                         |                       | sub rsp, 0x10                                        |                       | mov dword [rbp - 4], edi                             |                       | mov qword [rbp - 0x10], rsi                          |                       | cmp dword [rbp - 4], 2 ; test.c:2     if (argc > 2)  |                       | jle 0x400557 ;[a]                                    |                       =------------------------------------------------------=                             t f  .--------------------------' '------------------------------.  |                                                           |  |                                                           |=--------------------------------------------------=      =--------------------------------------------------=|  0x400557                                        |      |  0x40054b                                        || mov edi, 0x4005f7 ; test.c:5         puts(Oo); |      | mov edi, 0x4005f4 ; test.c:3         puts(Ok); || call sym.imp.puts ;[b]                           |      | call sym.imp.puts ;[b]                           |=--------------------------------------------------=      | jmp 0x400561 ;[c]                                |    v                                                     =--------------------------------------------------=    |                                                         v    '-----------------------------------.---------------------'                                    |                                    |                                =-------------------------------------=                                |  0x400561                           |                                | mov eax, 0 ; test.c:6     return 0; |                                | leave ; test.c:7 }                  |                                | ret                                 |                                =-------------------------------------=There are a lot of slides available from various talks about radare2, but I guess the easiest way to lrean how to use it is to read the radare2 book. I'm quite sure that everyone would be happy to help you/implement missing features on the irc channel!