Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> skribis: > Keep in mind that there are many elements to data security.
Put simply, in the context of stack smashing, it consists of protection against any form of program running astray, whether it does so by design or not. Someone running everything as superuser is in what you might call an ‘MSDOS’ situation -- presumably both knows that and finds the risks acceptable. Turning off stack smashing protection makes sense to me, in that case.
