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| From: | Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-amd64@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3 | ||
| Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:45:02 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20140617174457.GA5605@crud | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3 by Rich Freeman |
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| 1 | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> skribis: |
| 2 | > Keep in mind that there are many elements to data security. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Put simply, in the context of stack smashing, it consists of |
| 5 | protection against any form of program running astray, whether it does |
| 6 | so by design or not. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Someone running everything as superuser is in what you might call an |
| 9 | ‘MSDOS’ situation -- presumably both knows that and finds the risks |
| 10 | acceptable. Turning off stack smashing protection makes sense to me, |
| 11 | in that case. |