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The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
Jon Lasser, 2002-07-17

Why Microsoft's Palladium project threatens to send Linux and open-source into exile.

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Palladium and buffer overflows 2002-07-19
Anonymous
A buffer overflow is a runtime event.

Here's an example: The developer has only allocated 32 bytes for a buffer. The attacker manages to stuff 64 bytes into it. Those 64 bytes are copied into the storage space allocated for the buffer. The "extra" 32 bytes don't just disappear: they get placed in...

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