Bad actors have been using IDA this entire time. So no, not really.
This is cool because:
- It's legal and free - It's open source
Your linked informational page leaked out when someone sent WikiLeaks a dump from a classified Confluence used by CIA’s cyber folks.
The tool itself, however, had not leaked.
I am not wondering about the concept of reverse engineering but the specific (and hopefully novel) feature set that this may enable.
Hopper - is Capstone.
BinaryNinja - The extension API isn't well documented last time I checked. Embedded systems sort of requires letting me fill in some of the gaps myself.
Capstone - I got frustrated when the translation script behind it that autogens code from the LLVM definitions wasn't available (as source or otherwise) which meant that I couldn't add to the instruction set in a meaningful way like I needed to.
Radare(2) - Feels like the barely glued together independent projects that it is. Somehow has a more inscrutable interface than IDA.
One of the frontends I tried (can't remember if it was Hopper, Clipper, or something else) for some reason thought PowerPC had branch delay slots, which was totally screwing up the basic block determination.
I got out of this stuff before decompilation became a mainstream feature, so it might be a big deal that Ghidra has a strong decompiler.