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Darknet Diaries

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What Is a Payload?

A pay load is what you want your computer to do after a vulnerability gets exploited. The exploit is the way in, and the payload is the action taken once you get in. Changing the payload wasn't always even an option unless you had access to the source code of the exploit or could build your own attack. H d made this easy with men exploit, giving you the option to pick the exploit, pick the payload and then choose your target. It made hacking a thousand times easier.

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