Black Hat Go – Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters

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This needs some actual insight into the content of the book. Example chapters; More information on the authors; Anything really...

Agreed.

I haven't read the book but definitely will.

I work in security and have noticed most security people are not software engineers and mostly know how to cobble together python scripts.

Go is much better for this with the extremely strong stdlib, types, simplicity, etc. I've been pushing my security friends to adopt go for a while and I'm glad there's a book to point them to.

>March 2018

No shit you haven't :D

For penetration testing, Python's standard library is much more useful than Go's, and there are way more third party libraries.

Yeah scapy is nice and there's a lot of nice libs, but security engineering and building of tools Go wins every time. Especially when it's something brand new.

I like Golang a lot and have built a bunch of things in it, but I do not think that for the stuff "Black Hat Go" is talking about that Go is more effective than Python. Python is one of my least favorite language, and it is practically the lingua franca of offensive security (followed by Ruby).

Wouldn't the capability to compile a completely self-contained binary for any platform that can avoid AV be really appealing to pentesters?

Not sure what's exactly going on, but I am served this plain PHP file instead of the actual content. https://hastebin.com/yakojujoka.xml

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