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		floatboth on Feb 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution > No ASLR or other hardening flags because FreeBSD OPNSense (fork of pfSense) is built on top of HardenedBSD, so there's ASLR, PIE, SEGVGUARD, all the things :)

pyvpx on Feb 11, 2017 [–]

it doesn't work very well, even for the little OPN/pfSense do.

MohammadLee on Feb 12, 2017 | [–]

From my experience it works actually pretty well, and OPNSense does indeed address the issues the parent posted

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