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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

>>Exploitable buffer overflows are a known *class* of bugs that are pretty
>>much endemic with C (and C++ that uses C) code.

>    Of course they also depend on not using hardware designed with
> security in mind.

Could you elaborate on that, please?