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minitechyesterday at 5:21 PM1 replyview on HN

ASLR is (still[1]) not security by obscurity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408079


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bigstrat2003yesterday at 10:04 PM

ASLR is, by definition, security by obscurity. The entire purpose of it is to make it so that it's hard to find the memory which is in use.

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