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 # reconnoitre
 A reconicense tool made for the OSCP labs to automate information gathering and service enumeration
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+# Credit
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+This tool is based heavily upon the work made public in Mike Czumak's (T_v3rn1x) OSCP review, found here: https://www.securitysift.com/offsec-pwb-oscp/
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+This also has considerable influence and code taken from Re4son's mix-recon which is also based upon Mike Czumak's original offering. The public repository for mix-recon can be found here: https://github.com/Re4son/mix-recon
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+# Usage
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+This tool can be used and copied for personal use freely however attribution and credit should be offered to Mike Czumak who originally started the process of automating this work.