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Thoughts on *Hacking: the Art of Exploitation*

At Long Last

Hacking post day eeelevenish, and it’s finally time! We start the code exploitation chapter and begin hacking.

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What the Struct

Hacking post day ten. I skipped out on writing yesterday because it was too late at night. This week I am focusing on writing, and sleeping, earlier. But, enough about me! Let’s dive into some more C material. Today is mostly about structs.

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Cyber Burr Brrr

Hacking post day the ninth. These days, it’s all about the cyber. We continue with a discussion of Linux user IDs (aka UIDs (aka cyber UIDs)).

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Rabbit Trail Redux

Today I am again time-poor, so I have again opted to write a little about my tooling. Hacking: the Art of Exploitation comes with a live CD for all your hacking needs, so I made it into a virtual machine for easy access. Here I’ll talk about that process and link to a nice guide.

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Make my Day

Hacking book day six, what what? Let’s do this. We’re moving on from variable scoping, globals, and statics. Not like way beyond, just into-the-next-city beyond.

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It Could Always Be Worse

Hacking book day four (or so…just realized my numbering is incredibly inconsistent). Today there’ll be more introductory programming concepts paired with low-level architecture discussion. Let’s get started.

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Five Five Five

Hacking book day 3 whoop whoop! 30 minutes to write and publish here we go. More basic programming concepts than you can shake a stick at.

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A Brief Rabbit Trail

Due to time-constraints, I find myself unable to write a full hacking post today. So instead, here’s my jekyll setup and workflow.

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Wiggle Before You Fly

Today is day 0 in my read through of Hacking: the Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson. As such, today’s post will include background material as well as some of my initial thoughts.

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