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Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default?

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default?
Date 2017-08-09 17:10 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:48:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2017 10:31:48 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > 慕 冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > When does Debian Team, or Security Team decide to enable PIE by
> > > default?
> >
> > I guess it was one year ago. At least that's the dates one can see on
> >   https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition
> >
> Interesting Thomas, but what the heck is PIE?  I know about PAE, but PIE?  
> Whats it do?  Searching the above wiki returned only this thread.
> 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code

It's a security measure.

-dsr-

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Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-08-09 16:40 +0200
  Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-09 16:50 +0200
    Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-09 17:10 +0200
      Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-08-09 20:00 +0200
    Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-08-09 17:30 +0200
    Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 02:30 +0200
      Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-10 10:10 +0200
        Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-08-12 13:20 +0200
          Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-12 16:10 +0200
  Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-10 10:00 +0200

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