NSA will release some sort of advanced IDA reversing tool in March

[gigaman]

Originally Posted by zkp

I agree, by publishing the source code of their tool, they get many interested reverse engineers to look at it and if possible, contribute to it. So in the end they get improvements to their software for free. Without having to maintain the tool they can focus again on the real work and spy on people. Clever move, NSA.

Question is... in their line of work, could they actually use this "community-maintained" tool? There could be vulnerabilities/backdoors there...