full-disclosure - Microsoft arithmetic

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Message-Id: <201001201957.o0KJv8JX005939@bari.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:57:08 +1100
From: psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Microsoft arithmetic

Reading
  Reports of DEP being bypassed
  http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2010/01/20/reports-of-dep-being-bypassed.aspx
I see:
  ... less than 1% (1/256 + 1/255 + 1/254) of ...
Funny arithmetic! No wonder MS cannot do security.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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