Good to see that the technique is still viable after two decades.
On a related note, this sort of issue (difficulty researching the origins of techniques, and hacking history in general) is a problem that will only get worse. As a community we haven’t created an institutional memory beyond “the oldest hacker you know.”
Exactly 20 years ago I wrote and released userland exec().
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Jan/2
Good to see that the technique is still viable after two decades.
On a related note, this sort of issue (difficulty researching the origins of techniques, and hacking history in general) is a problem that will only get worse. As a community we haven’t created an institutional memory beyond “the oldest hacker you know.”