[Dailydave] Dep and aslr and /gs and so on

[Trygve Aasheim]

You think so?   :)

History has proven that new challenges and obstacles are what brings the 
younger generation into play. When the rules change, and the old farts 
can't keep up because they have to totally change their approach to the 
problem at hand, the young guns enter the scene.

The average age of an engineer in the Apollo program was 23...and they 
managed to put a man on the moon, even if there was a whole bunch of 
rocket scientist of the old school that thought it would be impossible.

So it might not be easy, and there might not be as many dirty hacks and 
cheap tricks - making it harder to enter the game. But I think we'll see 
a change again like we did with Aleph One, XSS, js etc, and the kids 
that master the new scene will come.

Just wait and see.


(amen)

;)


Ralf-Philipp Weinmann skrev:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> you're right there. If you tell people in our community something's 
> impossible to break, it definitely will be broken. Lars Knudsen's quote 
> about cryptology can be weakened and transferred to information security 
> in general: "If something is provably secure, it's probably not."
> 
> Nonetheless, what I really don't like about this inflation is that it'll 
> prevent new kids from entering the game as easily as we did. My fear is 
> that in a couple of years it's gonna be just us olpharts (excuse the 
> pun) who have the nice exploits.
> 
> Cheers,
> .:ralf:.
> 
>     On Mar 26, 2009 7:36 PM, "Dave Aitel" <dave.aitel at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dave.aitel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     So over and over for several years now you can hear people in the
>     offensive information security talk in despair about the new
>     Microsoft protection measures. But here's the thing as I see it - if
>     you tell yourself its impossible, then it definitely will be.  As
>     Joe Bennet from "Lipstick Jungle" would say: "Plan for success!".
> 
>     All of the new security technologies coming out total a one or two
>     order of magnitude increase in an attacker's costs. That's not
>     impossible, that's just inflation. So deal.
> 
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