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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 would NOT stop buffer overflows... 2002-07-21
Nicholas Weaver
Palladium's code signing has no effect on buffer overflows.

The only restriction which it might impose which would have an effect on buffer overflows is basically "No executable stack AND heap", which could both be done using the current VM system and breaks JITs of all stripe.
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