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bleearg13
join:2001-03-03
Gaithersburg, MD
|  How is this stuff found?
»www.darkreading.com/document.asp···d=113414
How on earth is this found? | |
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join:2005-09-23
Richmond, VA | Re: How is this stuff found? didn't answer the question! | |
| | | severach
join:2002-09-12
Jackson, MI
| Re: How is this stuff found? Black hats harm everybody by destroying stuff. The white hats either do something that is unimportant to you or something that is highly desirable to you but highly undesirable to Microsoft. For example, if a white hat found out a way to permanently disable the signed driver protection in Vista, that would be wonderful for everyone in the world except for Microsoft who's sole purpose for that feature is to prevent you and me from modifying the system to our advantage. Noone wants that except for Microsoft. | |
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA
1 edit | said by John_W  : MS has had a habit of ignoring white hat findings, or at best putting off, where other software companies, like mozilla, who who get their patches right out there as soon as they can. It's a hell of a lot fuckin easier to edit code on a browser then an entire OS. How bout comparing apples to apples instead of apples to porcupines.
PS- Answer the OP's question while you are at it.
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| For buffer overflows, you can just try dumping a long, long string of data into every function that takes strings of data and see which ones crash.
If a long, long string of data causes your OS to crash (in one way or another, not necessarily requiring a complete reboot), then you've overwritten something and maybe you can use this to your advantage to overwrite executable code. | |
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