EvilZone

Very good!

HINT: use [ code=c++ ] when pasting code. (Without spaces of course).

Not vulnerable since there is no user input.

Actually I second that. It does not matter a whole lot if you start out in C or in C++

This might have been correct 10 years ago, but now C++ has completely different style to C. You can code in C if you use C++, but you cannot code in C++ if you use C. C++ is just different paradigm of thinking with classes (and everything that goes with that), objects, STL (if you don't use STL you are not programming in C++), etc

As one person on the Internet said:
"Put simply, what is considered idiomatic in C is definitely not idiomatic in C++.
C and C++ are very different languages in practice, because of the way people use them. C aims at minimalism, where C++ is a very complex language, with a lot of features."

Can be faster if instead of recursion you use iteration. Can also crash if there's too many nested directories - runs out of stack space.

I've always believed that anything that you love, if you then end up doing as a career you run the risk of hating it. That's how it is for me at least. I have hopes of hopefully becoming a security analyst, and for some reason I thought it would be different. Specially the higher level sexy senior security consultant/pentesting jobs because, "How could breaking into a corporate network for money be boring?"

Not that this will definitely happen, but I'd be interested to know how many people here and on IRC don't really "hack" as a hobby anymore because they are forced to deal with networks and security all day every day. I don't think that this article is strictly referring to the world of infosec, even though that's what it was directed at. For example, say you get a job as a developer, I could easily see that making you hate programming once you realize that bureaucratic fucktards are constantly pushing deadlines on you, and you are only ever coding things that don't actually interest you.

I've been hearing a lot recently that "hacking irl is dead." This makes me sad but I wonder how true it is. I mean sure, you can't just drop a shell on any website in a few minutes using error-based sqli anymore, but hacking is still alive and well. I believe that anyway. If anything it's more alive then ever because it's harder. We are constantly pushing the boundaries and that certainly doesn't evaluate to "hacking is dead." /tangent

Anyway, I 'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't be pursuing a career as a "hacker", the trouble is that no careers have ever really interested me. I landed on this one because security is my greatest hobby and it makes sense to get paid for it.

I suggest you do network administration/engineering for a job. Doesn't involve hacking but still deals with same topics such as network security. Keep hacking a hobby as it was initially for every starting hacker.

Is using list for accessing the packets thread safe? Your thread and the main process access self._packets without locks (as far as I know) so there maybe a problem.
I suggest using queue instead which has inbuilt blocking mechanism.