Hacks (was RE: [rant] owner of squeak)
Peter Crowther
peter.crowther at networkinference.com
Fri Dec 21 14:28:54 UTC 2001
> From: Stephen Pair [mailto:spair at advantive.com]
> Reading this article reminds me of one thing that Squeak has going for
> it. With Squeak, it's not possible to have buffer overflow attacks.
... if you keep entirely within the image. Attacking the VM (either from
the outside or with carefully-crafted sequences of primitive calls from the
inside) is another matter entirely; same with plug-ins.
- Peter
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