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May 8, 2006 :: Volume 2, Issue 4
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No Execute Flag Waves Off Buffer Attacks

Posted by TimSlavin at February 27, 2005

"If programmers wrote perfect software that could never be crashed by an overload of data, buffer overflow attacks would be a thing of the past. Various defensive techniques can also squelch overflow attacks, and other programming languages, such as Java, don't permit them at all (at the cost of slower performance). But rewriting or replacing every program in existence just isn't going to happen anytime soon."

From the Washington Post Tech News (free registration required).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55209-2005Feb26.html

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