Cleartext, Module 1: The Path of a Packet

And why every cyberattack you’ll ever read about lives somewhere on it. A foundational walk-through of how a packet actually traverses the network stack, with attack surface mapped to each layer.

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You type curl https://example.com and hit enter. 200 milliseconds later, the server’s response is on your screen. In that 200 milliseconds, a lot happened.

The first module in the Cleartext series. Walks through the path a packet takes from your terminal to a remote server and back, then maps the categories of attack that live at each layer. Designed as the foundation that later modules build on.