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		allep on Dec 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD pr... a fundamental difference between W^X and PAX is that PAX can be disabled on a per binary based, where W^X is applied on the whole system. That more aggressive aproach has been applied first on OpenBSD and i like to believe that's that they are referring to

thomashabets2 on Dec 18, 2015 [–]

You'd like to believe that but it's not.

See my reply to the other person replying to me.

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