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I don't know what IDA is, but you get an upvote, because I have had this exact experience so many times... so many times.

If I could have a dollar for everytime I put my head to a random problem and came out 3 months later... I'd have more than fifty dollars.

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IDA is the industry-standard binary disassembly tool. Expensive, so used over (dramatically) cheaper competitors like Hopper mainly by people whose company pays for a license :D

Or people who have ...disassembled the locked down original?

This is why Pandora's Key was a fruitless business endeavor

I got to play with some hackmes in a hackathon and my teammates got frustrated by the crippled IDA demo version that they just downloaded a pirate version.

Amusingly the readme for the pirate version said "I cracked it with IDA Pro" or something along those lines.

I'm very sad that Hopper has been discontinued on Windows, but radare2 has promise.

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