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Date: Sat Jul 12 2008 - 05:31:02 CDT

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Thomas Ptacek wrote:
>> > Specifically, to obtain the certification you will need to write a
>> > buffer overflow from scratch within a certain time period. You will
>> > first find the buffer overflow by reverse engineering a target program,
>> > and then obtain a shell from it or execute a command. This is a hands-on
>> > certification, not a paper test.
>> Sounds like potentially a meaningful, if narrow, test.
>
> Some of the most effective pentesters I've met would not be able to
> pass this. This is the problem with all certifications.

I think that exploit writing is a very different activity than pen testing.
And even if a pen-tester get that certification, he would be writing an
exploit for a platform 8 years old, without any modern BOF protection. I
wonder what is the point.
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