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    54 months ago

    What would some use cases be for forging packets, aside from trying to claim a stolen election.

    I’m not really asking because I want to do anything nefarious; just pure curiosity with these kind of things. Darknet Diaries is a great podcast for this kind of thing.

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      104 months ago

      Funny packets make things behave funny sometimes. Sometimes you just need to see how something behaves when you send it illegal packets that the real software would never send.

      It also makes it possible to cheat in some games by lying to the game server about interactions in game.

      Essentially hackers need a way to talk to machines at every level of every protocol and Scapy is a pretty standard way of achieving that.