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ryanlol
on July 9, 2017
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement an...
The better question is if there's been a serious hack prevented or significantly mitigated by grsec, and the answer to that is most certainly yes.
muppetman
on July 10, 2017
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It's prevented two exploits on a device I own. One just neutered the exploit (it just didn't work) and the other caused the kernel to panic and crash. So yes, it's stopped two for two that I've seen (this is in the last ~6 years)
Loony2
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That's the thing though, can you prove that you haven't been exploited several times that you didn't notice and grsec which grsec didn't mitigate?
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