full-disclosure - Why Vulnerability Databases can't do everything

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Date: Sat Jul 16 19:06:06 2005
From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Subject: Why Vulnerability Databases can't do everything

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Jason Coombs wrote:

> 3) Stop buffering runtime I/O within the same physical memory as machine
> code.

This should have been #1 - and it is something I have been bitching about
since the BIRTH of MPUs in the mid '70s. (yeah, I'm an old mainframe guy,
so I saw the problem.  just like everyone else did.)

90+ percent of our current woes can be laid at the doorstep of this single
fuck up.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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