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 <mudonglianga...@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-
