[clug] OSX + wireless security...

Andrew Janke a.janke at gmail.com
Wed May 13 13:36:06 GMT 2009


>> Address Space Layout Randomisation
>>
>> Microsoft Windows Vista uses Address Space Layout Randomisation, which
>> Mac OS X does not, Microsoft Windows XP does not, and neither do Debian
>> or Ubuntu Linux distributions.

>> There are versions of Linux or other operating systems available that
>> perform ASLR in various incarnations (eg: "Hardened Gentoo", OpenBSD).
>
> f10 has this, RHEL5 too.

I was going to leave this alone but:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/security

Ubuntu Server 9.04 does ASLR, don't know about previous releases.


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