bugtraq - Re: Buffer overflow prevention

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:36:02 +0200
From: cwidmer@...c.ethz.ch
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: misc@....openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention

i don't care about other peoples war. but:

> W^X was invented because we saw the need for it.  We had no idea that
> anyone else was working in the same area.

i think it is somewhat strange. there realy smart people start building 
something before they do some research and look if someone else is 
doing something similar?

isn't it like posting questions before reading man pages :)