Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Wednesday 09 August 2017 10:31:48 Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 慕 冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@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.

Thanks, you too.
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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