So you think most people found the post interesting because of the thing that they're actually going to talk about next time rather than the actual content? I

So you think most people found the post interesting because of the thing that they're actually going to talk about next time rather than the actual content? I believe that it's been widely read because of the novelty of avoiding crashes when dereferencing null pointers; in fact, for anyone who could have jumped to the conclusions about how the exploit would work, they could have reduced it to one line: "You can map address 0x0 with mmap and then segfaults on deferencing null don't happen." All of the rest of the article is only useful to people who don't know systems programming. At any rate, I'm not sure that our fundamental disagreement is that wide; clearly the article is laying down a building block for a later piece on the security exploit and it was written to serve that purpose. This seems to be your point. My point is the actual content can stand alone and, in fact does, and is not about security.