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#1 - Introduction
These days, proper exploit development on the latest and greatest operating systems is a time-consuming task. It doesn't help matters that the availability of public resources to help individuals research techniques to achieve such ends are becoming scarce. There are many reasons why this is now the case. Mainly, techniques to bypass security mitigations have become a valuable commodity to various entities and as such are no longer released as often for public dissemination or to further one's reputation.