Intel turning to hardware for rootkit detection

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

Ah yes.  Type safety to all, and to all a good night.

gem

 -----Original Message-----
From:   ljknews [mailto:ljknews at mac.com]
Sent:   Wed Dec 14 11:36:20 2005
To:     Secure Coding Mailing List
Subject:        RE: [SC-L] Intel turning to hardware for rootkit detection

At 9:14 AM -0500 12/14/05, Gary McGraw wrote:
> No, that's a copy of stackguard.  The real problem with all of these
> approaches is that they don't fix the root problem.  Finding and removing
> buffer overflow conditions with a static analysis tool is far superior.

But still better is using a programming language that does not allow
buffer overflows.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen
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