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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. My Windows XP has heap protection! by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Microsoft released this last year. Read the details here

    As BSD is my other favorite OS (I tend to use XP for desktops and FreeBSD for servers), I'm glad to know that they've finally caught up with Microsoft in this important area.

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