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This is pretty cool. I didn't know the Army Research Lab used Python in any of their projects.

Thanks for sharing this.

As of a decade ago the intelligence community loved open source, and in the domain I was in it took more than a song and dance to get them to accept Windows as an OS for your stuff instead of Linux.

We should rather be surprised if they aren't using wildly popular tools like Python (although not any particular one, since like in the civilian world different communities tend to pick out a small set of tools to work with, e.g. Google has only 4 or so blessed languages).

http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...

What is the relevance?

"An information security specialist with the US Army, O'Connor introduces the hacker's programming language Python to new users, and describes some advanced features to those who already know it."

Oops, thanks. I skimmed and ctrl+f'd for "army", but I guess I still missed it somehow.

From the author of `How I Penetration Tested Your Mother`?

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