How to parse binary porridge?

Question

Data recovery

Are there any ways to parse the binary data received by the traffic sniffer. The data is not encrypted, but can both the entire packets and their parts be distorted? Is there any literature on this topic?

Answer 1

some time ago, when the Internet was expensive, a friend of mine practiced a satellite dish.
the peculiarities of the satellite Internet are such that the responses from the servers to the clients are sent down from space to all and all clients at once.
thus, having put the simplest sniffer, he wrote all the traffic. and since the lion's share of the traffic is porn, after some time he received tons of pornography on his disks and all this is completely free.
the only thing is that it can't be controlled. you only get what you get. but the program was smart - somehow there, in terms of subdirectories, it managed to lay out itself.
Yes, there are such programs. who are capable of squeezing something out of raw traffic. I won't give you names. but I would start to google about how satellite traffic is sniffed. somewhere there will be the names of the programs nearby.