[plug] kernel driver frusturation

[Mark O'Shea]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:
> There's a strong attraction to using weird and possibly old
> architectures for firewalls and other hardened applications, at least if
> you're primarily trying to ward off script kiddies and casual attackers.
> W^X, Exec-shield, etc are helping reduce the advantages of doing so, but
> I still wouldn't mind a small ppc box for my firewall.
>
Hehe, I remember seeing a hacked cobalt raq2.  Some script kiddies
installed their precompiled binaries on there and then wondered why they
wouldn't work on the mips machine.

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Mark O'Shea