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		notaplumber on May 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD OpenBSD has ROP, SROP mitigations, everything is compiled PIE. Even invented a static PIE variant for single-user and install media.

eugeneionesco on May 27, 2016 [–]

All of those are pretty much useless since the vast majority of vulnerabilities can be used to read arbitrary memory.

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