The damage, however, was done. The viral content had created a new verb: “To get IDA’d” — meaning to have your trust betrayed by your most fundamental tool.
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As for IDA Pro? It survived. It always does. But for one glorious, terrifying week in October, a boring software patch became a global parable. The hackers had been hacked. The watchers had been watched. The damage, however, was done