The Real Reason Binary Exploitation Looks Dead Been seeing a lot of people say binary exploitation is dead now or only useful for CTFs. I honestly think people are looking at it the wrong way. It’s not dead. There’s just way fewer people willing to learn it seriously. Most people go into web security because it’s easier to start and you can get results faster. Makes sense. Binary exploitation takes more patience. You need to deal with C assembly debugging memory layouts weird crashes and a lot of confusion before stuff starts clicking. So it’s not that the field became useless. It’s that most people don’t want the harder path. That makes it look dead from the outside. Low level bugs still matter in embedded devices old software drivers mobile internals industrial systems and a lot of closed source products. Also most binary research is way less public. Web bugs get posted everywhere while low level findings often stay private or unnoticed.…