IDA has gone full corporations since 8.0, but before that china always used to leak the latest version.
Ironically this time IDA 9.0 was leaked by... hexrays themselves, including lumina, hexvault, etc. Pretty sure it was meant to be a demo page in defcon, but someone leaked the URL.
Binary Ninja is a solid competitor if you don't mind cleaning up the binaries before hand to clear up opaque jumps or have 256GB of ram.
IDA has gone full corporations since 8.0, but before that china always used to leak the latest version.
Ironically this time IDA 9.0 was leaked by... hexrays themselves, including lumina, hexvault, etc. Pretty sure it was meant to be a demo page in defcon, but someone leaked the URL.
Binary Ninja is a solid competitor if you don't mind cleaning up the binaries before hand to clear up opaque jumps or have 256GB of ram.
I thought the move was just using a cracked version until you make it and can afford a real license to flex.