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Re:The Equifax Breach Exposes America's Identity Crisis by mannykannot on Sunday September 10, 2017 @10:01AM (#15212245)
DEP and ASLR provide significant mitigation of the threat posed by this capability in statically-compiled languages, so it is definitely an issue that should be considered, along with others. Having said that, it is unlikely that there is any merely technical solution for the problem, which arises from the whole system being predicated on a falsehood - the assumed confidentiality of SSNs.

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