PoC||GTFO

Introduction

Dear reader, this is a weird book.

These are the collected works of the International Journal of Proof of Concept or Get The Fuck Out, a prestigious publication for ladies and gentlemen with an interest in reverse engineering, file format polyglots, radio, operating systems, and other assorted technical subjects. The journal’s individual issues are published in a variety of countries across the Americas and Europe, but this volume you hold contains our first nine releases in 788 action-packed pages, indexed and cross referenced for your convenience.

At first glance, it’s a technical book. It’ll tell you how to do strange and clever things, how to make polyglot files¹ and crazy radio signals² and boot sector video games.³ It will ...