From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 14:41:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C250B16A4C0 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from front1.netvisao.pt (front1.netvisao.pt [213.228.128.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A105843FA3 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from casd@netvisao.pt) Received: (qmail 3735 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2003 21:41:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO netvisao.pt) (217.129.211.66) by front1.netvisao.pt with SMTP; 22 Aug 2003 21:41:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3F468E1F.5060903@netvisao.pt> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:41:51 +0100 From: Santos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030813 Thunderbird/0.2a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Security article on The Inquirer X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:41:53 -0000 The title is "Microsoft cerebrates fifteen years of poor security". But it's about more than Microsoft's security. It talks about buffer overflows, memory separation, OpenBSD's data "canary", etc. I think it's a good read for anyone interested on this kind of stuff. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11108 Santos