Do people trust Ghidra? How come it’s been developed by the NSA? From an outsider perspective, that sounds so weird!

Thanks in advance to anyone able to enlighten me!

  • Cadenza@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    Yeah but… isn’t it weird that they share their tools then?

    I’m not into conspiracy stuff. It’s just that when I downloaded Ghidra for the first time, when I saw it was being published by the NSA, I had a “wow, didn’t expect that” reaction and it somehow became a shower thought.

    It may be important to say that I’m not from the US. Where I live, I’m not sure things like that would happen or have happened. Well, or it did and I didn’t really pay attention.

    • listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io
      6·
      1 month ago
      1. There is always some level of distrust of secretive organizations like the NSA/FBI/CIA/
      2. Usually it’s the previous gen / obsolete tech filters out of them, because they do want people to protect themselves a bit. I’d almost guarantee they have better / more advanced tools they aren’t sharing.
    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      They might enjoy the benefits of collaboration. Still the fact they are intimidating you with a public tool is also of benefit to their image as a powerful group. A large part of police work is intimidation.