Why is Python a popular language for hacking?
Just wondering...
Academic answers only, please
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VulcanWM
It's a pretty easy language to learn and is multi-purpose
Just wondering...
Academic answers only, please
:D
It's a pretty easy language to learn and is multi-purpose
This doesn't even need an "academic" answer. A lot of attacks nowadays are done through the web and manipulate a security flaw in some API somewhere. That doesn't need a lot of processing power, that's just a bunch of HTTP requests, so Python's code-efficient HTTP library wins in this situation.
Now, if this were an attack that involved a lot of calculations or brute force, then no, I'm not going to use Python. I'm going to grab C/C++. But again, those situations aren't always worth the computing power.