Agree completely! This is the best thing I've read on Hacker News in some time. Even if you've never been involved in security research you'll learn and be entertained at the same time.

And the writer also shows honesty:

> Why the 32-bit edition? I’m not going to lie: I wanted to give myself a break. I was expecting this to be pretty hard so going after the problem in the 32-bit space gives us just a few more options in our trusty exploitation toolkit.

I happened to like this write-up a fair bit :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080430162146/http://www.matasa...

(The original post on the matasano.com server seems to have been eaten; any chance that could be resurrected, tptacek?)

There are some things I liked on that blog, but a lot more stuff I didn't like, and sorting the wheat from the chaff is painful.