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by tptacek 1244 days ago
It didn't "survive" in that manner: it wasn't LP64 clean, and had memory corruption vulnerabilities.
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You described something the qmail paper said and I corrected you. If the paper is inaccurate that’s orthogonal.
You're also incorrect about the paper.

Really, the whole argument you're making --- the reason we're talking about Bernstein in the first place --- is broken. Bernstein himself would probably not agree with the take you're trying to derive from the relationship between his work and "enumerating badness".