In the second part, I cover this very briefly. Basically, there were so many other holes to exploit from 1988-1995 that you didn't need to learn a whole new exp

In the second part, I cover this very briefly. Basically, there were so many other holes to exploit from 1988-1995 that you didn't need to learn a whole new exploitation technique. Also note that it took a few years for buffer overflow exploitation techniques developed on Linux to hit Windows -- the systems were far enough apart that it took a little while to port. So an entirely new exploitation technique (not just new platform) would require much more work, and thus be a larger barrier to entry. Also, Lopatic was a creative thinker. Sometimes it just takes being shown something is possible to challenge many others to try to replicate it.