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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by tptacek on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:35PM (#7631557)
How so? Do you just mean fewer people knew PPC? I'm not sure I follow this.
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by yuhong on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:57PM (#7631615)
Yea, partly, but also because PowerPC shellcode is more difficult:

http://uninformed.org/?v=1&a=1&t=pdf

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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by plantain on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:39PM (#7631767)
It's a dream compared to x86...
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by tptacek on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:47PM (#7631811)
Split I&D caches on the PPC complicates things.
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