Once upon a time, Eugene Crosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On a bright side, the system apparently comes with a stack overflow
> protection hack (non-executable stack patch?  Don't know exectly) and
> some intrusion detection thing based on IP traffic analysis.

Remember, a non-executable stack is mostly just an annoyance to
crackers.  Tru64 Unix comes out of the box with non-executable stack
enabled by default, and yet there are still buffer overflow security
holes in it.
-- 
Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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