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Discussion on: TCP and UDP did you ever use them directly?

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Kyle Mistele

I do a lot of work in Cybersecurity, so I have on a couple occasions. I built a recursive ‘whois’ resolver in golang since all the libraries I could find wrapped the Linux whois binary. I wrote that on top it TCP, since it’s a pretty simple protocol. I also wrote an SMB network scanner on top of TCP to concurrently scan an active directory domain for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations