April 30, 2012
Professional hackers or security testers tend to write a lot of code. We write exploit code, fuzzers, code to handle esoteric protocols and data structures, unpackers, disassemblers, reversers, parsers, and so much more.
We write this code because often what we’re doing is so specific that is requires one off tools. Over time we develop an enormous arsenal of our own tools, scripts, functions and code snippets that make us significantly more efficient, but are hacks that are only beneficial to us.
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