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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:03:49 +0000
From:      Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Vadim Kolontsov <vadim@tversu.ru>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: non-executable stack?
Message-ID:  <199806300203.DAA03866@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> "Re: non-executable stack?" (Jun 29, 10:35am)

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On Jun 29, 10:35am, Warner Losh wrote:
} Subject: Re: non-executable stack?

[ lots of examples of people writing printable-ASCII shell code ]

> Checks for printable vs non-printable are bogus and don't buy any
> extra security at the cost of inconvenience.

Oh well, there goes another silver bullet.

Niall

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