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I'm in the security field and do work similar to this professionally. This article it poorly written and i found the videos shown absolutely useless. If you want to see how technical articles should read, take a look at j00ru's blog (research that found this). That is how you write about this stuff.

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Thank goodness!

I looked at the article and it made me mad because it seemed to be a bunch of nonsense.

I mean the second video paragraph is: "A closer look at the memcpy arguments shows that this address is built as 0xfffff8035b2a0000 + 0xe7ff, so we taint the value 0xe7ff to find where it comes from." But there's absolutely zero explanation of what we're looking at.

So it made me mad because it made me feel stupid for not understanding it, when in reality it's just poorly written. Poor communication is theft.

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