Black Hat Go

INTRODUCTION

For about six years, the three of us led one of North America’s largest dedicated penetration-testing consulting practices. As principal consultants, we executed technical project work, including network penetration tests, on behalf of our clients—but we also spearheaded the development of better tools, processes, and methodology. And at some point, we adopted Go as one of our primary development languages.

Go provides the best features of other programming languages, striking a balance between performance, safety, and user-friendliness. Soon, we defaulted to it as our language of choice when developing tools. Eventually, we even ...