Most candidates can recite the flags. The scored part is proving you can capture on a saturated box without adding load, then read the file afterward like evidence.
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How do you run tcpdump on a production host without making things worse, and what do you do with the capture?
Most candidates can recite the flags. The scored part is proving you can capture on a saturated box without adding load, then read the file afterward like evidence.
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