Request: Hardened system tutorial/patch

Thu Oct 20 04:13:32 PDT 2016

On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 11:12:24 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 12:51:46 UTC, Lodovico 
> Giaretta wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> As you might have noticed, Ubuntu 16.10 joins the community of 
>> hardened systems by shipping GCC 6.2 with PIE enabled by 
>> default. This is a wonderful security choice
>
> Maybe it is not so perfect security choice
> http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/micro16.pdf

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