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> early on, it plays tricks with your mind — what if I’m really as clueless as they say?

> What stings far more is when you get no reaction whatsoever

Wow, even someone like lcamtuf can feel like this sometimes. This guy is the author of super-awesome stuff like "The Tangled Web" book, the "Guerrilla guide to CNC" and the "american fuzzy lop" software. Definitely, his work is the kind of content that makes the internet 1000 times better!

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I still remember being in awe of his paper on strange attractors - plotting the random number generators from various oses and languages in 3D space to discern patterns. That blew my mind at the time.

Edit: ah here it is. It was initial tcp sequence number generators: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/oldtcp/tcpseq.html

That's an amazing piece of work. Even in a quick skim I picked up a lot of new ideas which speaks to how well the author can explain tricky concepts!

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