Comment by SXX
10 years ago
Cost of IDA is nothing. Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee. Plenty of people would be happy to buy it, but they can't.
10 years ago
Cost of IDA is nothing. Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee. Plenty of people would be happy to buy it, but they can't.
>>Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee. Plenty of people would be happy to buy it, but they can't.
This is patently false. You can buy all HexRays products online.[1] I've done it myself. I'm confused as to why you're claiming this.
[1]: https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi
To add yet another data point: Hex-Rays refused to sell IDA to me at first (I quote: "Please contact us from your corporate email address for verification. We do not deliver to free email accounts."). I had to use my @google.com address to confirm I am a Google employee even though this is a personal license!
Lucky you then. They simply not selling it to someone who reverse engineer old games for instance. Or anyone who decide to not send them scan of their passport and provide any other weird proof of identify.
PS: Just in case not everyone live in first world countries or being employee of well known companies. While it's possible to buy almost any software just fine IDA have extremely weird policies.
Hi, I bought a copy of IDA when I was 18 expressly for the purpose of reverse-engineering old games.
To be fair, I used my university E-mail, and they thought they were licensing it to my university until I tried to transfer it to my personal E-mail upon graduating....
There are other ways to obtain this, as you probably already know. Not sure if they do any more than what another ecommerce shop would do to verify a large transaction from an international order.
Anyone else have a problem with this? Are they indeed requiring more than the normal proof of identity to complete a cc transaction?
> Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee.
I was able to purchase a license for IDA Pro, I'm not an expert in the field and my job is not even remotely related to reverse engineering.