May 22, 2024

Binary Ninja - first steps

As near as I can tell, Vector 35 is the outfit that developed binary ninja. They have a series of videos on Youtube about how to use it:

Opening files: Ctrl-O gives you "open with options" (also available in the File menu). The "recent" list -- if you want the top item, use Ctrl-1. They say something about using a URL, but it is as clear as mud how this works (the trick is to use Ctrl-l, (lower case "L")).

Views: I find the guy talks too fast (for detail intensive technical topics anyway), so I set the playback speed to 0.75. This helps, but even with that I am finding these videos not very good for a beginner tutorial. The fellow hasn't thought too well about what his starting point is. These may be better to return to after I get started using other resources.

Other videos

There are plenty of online videos about reverse engineering in general and binary ninja in particular. As well as Ghidra and other tools.
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