While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage one, but it didn’t work. It looked like someone had ...

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack exhausts a target's resources — CPU cycles, memory, connection tables, or network bandwidth — until it can no longer serve legitimate requests. The attacker and the ...

Cpppo (pronounced ‘c’3*’p’‘o’ in Python) is used to implement binary communications protocol parsers. The protocol’s communication elements are described in terms of state machines which change state ...

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I've used both pexpect and python's built-in telnetlib somewhat regularly to talk to "dumb" telnet devices. Depending on how complicated the data is, telnetlib might be good enough and will work ...