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Le journal d'un reverser
Personal blog · 0x90909090.blogspot.comsecurityprogramming
Le journal d'un reverser is a personal blog at 0x90909090.blogspot.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this reverse-engineering blog for a post on command execution through program arguments. The only comment cites that post to support its point that argument control often still leads to RCE.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Controlling arguments without shell often still leads to RCE though, because a lot of software has some flag that runs some command https://0x90909090.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-one-expect-comman...
Comment linking /2015/07/no-one-expect-command-execution.html
on “A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP”Submitted No one expects command execution as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Always Trust Your Debugger Blindly: What You See Is Not What You Get as a story · 2 points
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