One confusing part is that the blue screen is not a reference to BSOD but to the IIS default page with the blue squares. That’s probably jargon.

The article lists all the tricks I’ve collected over the years doing pentesting and then some, with great tool references. The signal to noise ratio is very high and there’s little “here’s why” filler which instead might just be someone’s way of storytelling. The article drones on, but with actual content as there is a lot to tell. It’s even light on features like trace.axd, but does mention them and their purposes.

I found it an entertaining overview of taking apart unassuming IIS servers and the point of “Recon harder. ” is made very well :)

Edit: s/boring/unassuming + added point was made very well

"This is the brute-force fallback when the smart approaches fail, and honestly, it works more often than you’d expect."

Found the LLM generated part.

Would be a feat on its own to get Claude to write on a topic like this.

It did, this article is clearly LLM-written/edited

Get Claude to fix IIS, or is that not allowed any more?