Re: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted

["Jon O." <jono () networkcommand com>]

On 07-Jan-2006, Pierre Vandevenne wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I am still amazed at the level of confusion around this one btw...
>
> The fix was not a patch in the usual sense of the term. It may sound
> like a rethorical distinction, but it isn't: no windows files were
> modified by applying the fix.
>
> At the conceptual level, what the fix did isn't very different from
> what early DOS TSRs did when they hooked an interrupt vector.

It's an on-the-fly in-memory patch like software crackers use.

See the old-school:
http://www.searchlores.org/protec/whydwcr.htm

Should we call this "vulnerability cracking" ;) ?

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