Re: DARPA and the network

[Paul Jakma <paul () clubi ie>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:

> The real question is not whether other BSDs or other Unices are 
> following OpenBSD's lead.

At least one Linux distro ships with quite a few of the features 
Henning mentions (exec-shield since FC2, FORTIFY_SOURCE - available 
in FC3, FC4 built with it enabled).

I think MS have DLL base-address randomisation shipping in a service 
pack (not quite sure of this).

regards,
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