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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by jhasse on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:55AM (#15756755)
Yes, but how many of all cases of corrupted stack pointers are exploits?
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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by jessaustin on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:21AM (#15756936)
Why would that matter? We're not trying to be secure against random cosmic rays. We're trying to be secure against attackers.

http://wondermark.com/406/

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by jhasse on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:25AM (#15763919)
It matters because we're talking about letting the browser crash on all cases.

> We're trying to be secure against attackers.

We also want a browser that doesn't crash.

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