Writing Security Tools and Exploits
Learn to read, analyze, modify, and write custom exploits and enhance security tools with little or no assistance with help from this authoritative text.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Writing Security Tools and Exploits
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| Q: | Can I include Ethereal into a commercially available product without giving it any acknowledgements? |
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| Q: | Can Ethereal capture packets that have been sent via a T1, SS7, or fiber link? |
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| Q: | Can I can capture packets with CRC errors? |
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| Q: | No, in the words of Ethereal "85Ethereal is licensed under the GNU General Public License." The GPL imposes conditions on your use of GPL'ed code in your own products. For example, you cannot make a "derived work" from Ethereal by modifying it, and then sell the resulting derived work. You must also make the changes you've made to the Ethereal source available to all of the recipients of your modified version; those changes must also be licensed under the terms of the GPL. See the GPL FAQ for more details; in particular, note the answer to the question about modifying a GPLed program and selling it commercially, and the question about linking GPLed code with other code to make a proprietary program." |
| Q: | In general the answer is yes; however, it can only capture packets... |
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