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Heap Protection Mechanism

Posted by Hemos on from the protecting-ourselves dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's an article by Jason Miller on innovation in Unix that talks about OpenBSD's new heap protection mechanism as a major boon for security. Sounds like OpenBSD is going to be the first to support this new security method."

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  1. Re:cool by mysqlrocks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    now unix will be more secure than all... well, again.

    What do you mean? Windows Vista will be more secure than Unix. j/k

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    Bradley Holt
  2. Re:Hope by maita · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're talking about two different things. Read a few comments above: #13704300, moron.