26 Feb
2006
26 Feb
'06
4:10 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
On 2/26/2006 at 11:50 AM Eric J Korpela wrote:
I don't buy this argument---what about the 68000 family? No segments
there at all. The Internet Worm of 1988 took advantage of that (and the
VAX---another flat architecture).
-spc (Security, Speed, Easy---pick two ... )
And we're still paying for this brain dead
choice with buffer and
stack overrun exploits.
No argument there. At the very least, permissions should have been better
managed. But having CS separate from DS/ES/FS/GS makes the most sense.
Sometimes it seems that while we've evolved from a mule cart to a Maserati,
all we've done is moved the mule to the front seat.