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Very much so. I wrote a couple of simple "exploiters" for particular bad-patterns I saw, shortly after reading this piece: https://steve.fi/security/exploits/

Very much so. I wrote a couple of simple "exploiters" for particular bad-patterns I saw, shortly after reading this piece: https://steve.fi/security/exploits/ https://steve.fi/security/exploits/ These days these things are less useful, but recreating known-exploits is still educational. Once you get buffer-overflows handled you can look for more exotic things, format-string attacks, and similar.

e12e 6y ago
Oh, I didn't realize you were based in Finland - and only now realized why I've not seen any articles from the Deb adm site in a long while: http://web.archive.org/web/20190325214351/https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only http://web.archive.org/web/20190325214351/https://debian-adm... Without going too far side-tracked: I think the Arch wiki has demonstrated that a community wiki can be very useful - I do hope people continue to contribute to the Debian wiki (although I find myself mostly on Ubuntu of late). Anyway, there's a certain path from phrack through debian-administration.org that maps out where I find myself today, so happy coincidence to see the two line up in the threads.
- stevekemp 6y ago
  I moved from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Helsinki about five years ago. (I'm actually going to complete my post-Brexit registration to retain permanent residency this afternoon!) The arch wiki has been very useful to me over the past few years, I guess the barrier to entry there is lower for contributors. On my site I had a fair number of people writing interesting blog-posts, and comments, but only very very rarely did anybody submit an article. I felt like I had a good niche audience, but sadly never quite enough people to keep me really motivated. I'm just glad I managed to setup the redirects to the wayback machine - I feel like if the site disappeared for good I'd have lost a chunk of my life!

e12e 6y ago

Oh, I didn't realize you were based in Finland - and only now realized why I've not seen any articles from the Deb adm site in a long while: http://web.archive.org/web/20190325214351/https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only http://web.archive.org/web/20190325214351/https://debian-adm... Without going too far side-tracked: I think the Arch wiki has demonstrated that a community wiki can be very useful - I do hope people continue to contribute to the Debian wiki (although I find myself mostly on Ubuntu of late). Anyway, there's a certain path from phrack through debian-administration.org that maps out where I find myself today, so happy coincidence to see the two line up in the threads.

stevekemp 6y ago
I moved from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Helsinki about five years ago. (I'm actually going to complete my post-Brexit registration to retain permanent residency this afternoon!) The arch wiki has been very useful to me over the past few years, I guess the barrier to entry there is lower for contributors. On my site I had a fair number of people writing interesting blog-posts, and comments, but only very very rarely did anybody submit an article. I felt like I had a good niche audience, but sadly never quite enough people to keep me really motivated. I'm just glad I managed to setup the redirects to the wayback machine - I feel like if the site disappeared for good I'd have lost a chunk of my life!