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HardenedBSD (FreeBSD fork) has had ASLR and other mitigations since forever. Shawn submitted a patch that was never merged because of mailing list politics or s

HardenedBSD (FreeBSD fork) has had ASLR and other mitigations since forever. Shawn submitted a patch that was never merged because of mailing list politics or something of that sort + people afraid it was going to break the world. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473

cperciva 7y ago
> politics or something of that sort I suppose you could classify "the patch doesn't work and breaks other things besides" that way.
- landr0id 7y ago
  HardenedBSD got the userland running fine. It was iirc mostly irrational fear by the FreeBSD team that someone's bad application would break.
  - gonzo 7y ago
    That’s not what happened.
  - loeg 7y ago
    Nope. The code had major problems that were highlighted during code review, and Shawn never fixed them.