A thread asking about thread injection was recently hidden (effectively deleted). In light of Elkvis'(?) complaint, I wouldn't have been surprised to see it locked. But this was really surprising. Are you (moderator who removed it) really afraid of script kiddies' broken code?
Seems perfectly in line with the publicly posted guidelines:
6. Messages relating to cracking, (erroneously called "hacking" by many), copyright violations, or other illegal activities will be deleted.
Thread injection isn't cracking. Thankfully it isn't yet an illegal activity, either.
Oh well, the forum rules are a tad ambiguous and subjective, so it's left in the hands of the mods what to do in a case-by-case basis. I don't like it but I can understand that from a legal perspective it's "better safe than sorry".
Devoted my life to programming...
It was me who deleted the thread.
<<snipped a long boring explanation because I've now got better things to to >>
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Well, let's hope it doesn't become a recurrent thing. In 15 years, I recall maybe once knowing about a non-spam thread being deleted. This was it.
But I'm sure you must have had your reasons, exactly because of that.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
So, what is this "thread injection" that we're talking about? I've tried googling this and all I got was stuff about DLLs and shared object files.
Remote Thread Injection. The ability to add your own thread to a running process, allowing you to run your own code in that process memory space. It can have many practical uses like hot patching (a poor man's DSU), remote tracing, etc. But it can also be used to wreak havoc in a user system and gain all the information the target process has access to.Originally Posted by MutantJohn
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
If it had been a regular member, I wouldn't have worried too much.
But when the very first post begins "I'm a 15 year old c++ noob", then it only leads to a bad place.
The poster (if they're reading this) needs to re-evaluate their reasons for learning c++.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Whoa, that sounds wildly unsafe O_o
It's not easy to achieve and you have to somehow defeat ASLR protection, which is no easy task (which I bet that code wasn't even close to achieve). It's also very difficult to implement without the OS raising all sorts of red flags and damning any chance of concealment (you have to also have gained the same user privileges of the target process. Good luck with that). As an attack it is virtually useless.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
