Linux gets trial 'NX' security support (News.com)

[Posted June 7, 2004 by ris]

News.com covers security technology designed to curtail the spread of viruses. "NX support is important enough that it's worth risking problems with some applications, Torvalds said. "I think most people have seen the security disaster that causes most of the e-mails on the Net to be spam. So this should be trivial to explain to people when they complain about default behavior breaking their strange legacy app," Torvalds argued." (The NX patch was also covered in last week's Kernel Page).

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