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Which is which

Posted Jul 24, 2009 22:36 UTC (Fri) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
In reply to: Which is which by nix
Parent article: Quotes of the week

My mention of "kernel protections" referred to NX/ASLR/etc, which are implemented in the kernel ;)

-Brad


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Which is which

Posted Jul 25, 2009 12:34 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah, yes, obviously they're worthwhile. Still there seems to be a
depressing frequency of vulns (exploitable even with these protections) in
the higher levels: the days when the kernel had more holes than everything
else put together seem to be behind us.

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