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Message-ID: <404096B6.2632.7CE2ABE1@localhost>
From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: And how long have buffer overflows been around?

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu replied to Glenn_Everhart@...kone.com:

> The only problem with that theory is that VMS *had* a security design, and
> there isn't one in NT.  The only design overlap there is that Microsoft got
> some of the VMS design team to come on board for Win/NT.  NT got stuck with
> having to be backward-combatable with Win 3.1, and you can fill in the blanks
> from there....

Methinks you confuse "design" with "default configuration".

NT 3.1 had a reasonable security design at its core, but an OOTB  
installation produced a security configuration "compatible with 
Win3.x".


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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