| Actually, I think he means he wants to see a proven example of this 'in
| the wild'. It is theoretically possible for any program that accepts input
| to suffer a buffer overrun. However, it is also theoretically possible to
| win the lottery.
Only for this lottery the winning numbers are known. Anyone can win!
| Buffer overruns can be used to gain control of your system; this was
| discovered very early on. They are very easy to protect against from a
| design standpoint, though. The number 1 rule of designing any program that
Sure, now get all programmers to do it. You'd end up with OpenBSD I guess.
Notice how most of the time it's people like l0pht that find the exploits - not
the manufacturer of the software.
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