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Two reasons.

First, because TAOSSA is an extremely good book.

Second, because TAOSSA deals with the fundamentals of vulnerabilities (with an intense focus on memory corruption issues).

The mainstream exploitation of memory corruption has evolved rapidly over the last 5 years or so, but the vulnerabilities themselves haven't changed. Use-after-free- style object lifecycle bugs are as old as Phrack.



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