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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Patch 4/6  randomize the stack pointer
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:40:40 +0100
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
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On 27 Jan 2005, at 19:04, John Richard Moser wrote:

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> What the hell?
>
> So instead of bringing something in that works, you bring something in
> that does significantly less, and gives no savings on overhead or patch
> complexity why?  So you can later come out and say "We're so great now
> we've increased the randomization by tweaking one variable aren't we
> cool!!!"?
>
> Red Hat is all smoke and mirrors anyway when it comes to security, just
> like Microsoft.  This just reaffirms that.

Please, keep politics out of this list and, instead, keep contributing 
with practical ideas and code.

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