Microsoft adopts open-source security feature

Posted by dcparris on Jun 1, 2006 12:19 AM EDT
Techworld.com; By Matthew Broersma 		Mail this story
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Microsoft is taking a page out of the open-source community's book where it comes to security. In Windows Vista Beta 2, released last week, the company included a feature called address space layout randomisation (ASLR), a method of foiling some classes of attack that has usually been associated with open-source projects.

[Hmmm... Does Bill know about this? - dcparris]

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