Crispin Cowan <crispinat_private> wrote: >When I was at the Oakland Security Conference last year (IEEE Symp. on >Security and Privacy) I made the error of crediting R.T. Morris with inventing >buffer overflows in front of some old timers. They pointed out to me that >there are buffer overflow exploits going back to the 1960's. The example >given was an OS/360 problem. Legendary are the stories about FORTRAN programs using negative array offsets to fix operating system bugs... >Crispin -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert - rhialtoat_private ---- Unauthorized duplication, \X/ .kun.nl ---- while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing.
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