Status Updates From Gray Hat Python: Python Pro...

Chapter 2 end: basics of 32bit i386. general-purpose registers, stack execution, EIP, ESP, EBP. debug events, types of breaking point(soft = changing opcode to 0xcc, but CRC(checksum verification ) is used by malware writers to detect,), hard = using debug registers (dr0-4 stores bp addresses, 3 are reserved, dr7 = on/off with type of debug events(eip @addr, write to addr, read/write to addr but not exec)), memorybp

This is going to be a fantastic rabbit hole to go down (I've been sort-of aimlessly teaching myself Python for a few months - this seems like it's going to not only provide some direction, but open the door to some other concepts that I've been holding 'just over the horizon')