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by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 2485 days ago
I've seen a lot of criticism of this approach - hiding vulnerabilities, instead of actually fixing them. Other mitigations actually prevent exploits (e.g. the combination of NX and ASLR raises the bar for getting code execution: suddenly interactivity and an address leak are required in addition to a stack-based overflow) whereas your mitigation (?) just sweeps bugs under the rug.

From my own skimming of the paper, the discussion of 'why?' boils down roughly to 'exploits are sometimes used for bad things'.

Do you believe your approach will actually improve the security of any systems, or will it just allow lazy vendors to hide their shallow bugs - leaving them to the most motivated (e.g. nation-state) adversaries?