[Pkg-ace-devel] Hardening

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr> wrote:
>> I've recently adopted hardening flags for witty and libmsn. Changes
>> are rather easy. What do you think of adopting hardening flags in ACE?
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
>
> No opinion on this. Might be worth a try (e.g. in experimental).
>
> What gain do you expect from this?

Allegedly, it makes libraries more protected against buffer overflows,
array out of bounds, etc, i. e. less prone to hacking  and bad
programming

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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