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Attacking Network Protocols
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Attacking Network Protocols

by James Forshaw
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 7m
English
No Starch Press
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Footnotes

Chapter 2: Capturing Application Traffic

1. A proxy loop occurs when a proxy repeatedly connects to itself, causing a recursive loop. The outcome can only end in disaster, or at least running out of available resources.

Chapter 3: Network Protocol Structures

1. Just ask those who have tried to parse HTML for errant script code how difficult that task can be without a strict format.

Chapter 6: Application Reverse Engineering

1. Apple moved to the x86 architecture in 2006. Prior to that, Apple used the PowerPC architecture. PCs, on the other hand, have always been based on x86 architecture.
2. This isn’t completely accurate: many network cards can perform some processing in hardware.
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