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The point of ASLR is that even if you fully understand how it works, this won't make it easier to bypass the protections of ASLR, since the primary way ASLR works is through dynamic adaptation. This turns it into a probabilistic security technique where there is always a chance that an attack goes through.

Security through obscurity in this case would be to roll your own ASLR implementation with a different randomization strategy.



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