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starev
17y ago
The difference is that you assume that the learning + industry experience + chance at a job later will make up for the not-being-paid. In this case, there is no potential for getting a foot in the door, no industry experience, and the 'lea
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starev
17y ago
It's hard to say what it is to "understand" an operating system, though. Knowing how it works in a fairly broad sense, or even knowing how specific parts of the kernel work doesn't mean you completely grok the system. I mean, understand in
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17y ago
If you encrypted or otherwise obfuscated the payload of the attack, it would make log analysis (particularly on the network level) difficult, and may help get around things like an IDS. It'd also make some forms of forensics much harder.
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17y ago
What I wonder about is what do they mean by "stealth programming"? I can think of just programming with white text on a white background, but that wouldn't serve any security related purpose. From reading that, it's clear that the shellcod