Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers Review

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by phn1x • 17 years ago

8 6 17 years ago

    The entire book is windows specific.

That's pretty disappointing to hear since I've already ordered this book and the only instance of Windows I have is a VM that I use for browser debugging. Given the chance I'd probably still buy it, but now I'm not as excited about it getting here.

tptacek3• 17 years ago

Unfortunately, the debugging interfaces on Linux and OSX are very different from Win32, and very different from each other.

mahmud2• 17 years ago

Windows has a debugging interface? toolhelp, drwatson and the debugging "api" are a joke. Everyone does debugging by circumventing the OS, hooking system calls and patching "protected" memory. Windows debugging is a messy witch-craft, so much so that everyone stood in awe, helpless and hapless when Rustock.C struck; a fine piece of malicious engineering that becomes part of the OS, a rootkit's rootkit that's gotten rid off only by disk formatting and a fresh install :-)

Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers Review

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