Midnight Research Labs

buffer overflows
sth posted in most unnecessary on November 9th, 2005

Wired magazine created a sadly hilarious flash animation of the buffer overflow. It does, however, appear to be written at the appropriate level for most of the people I’ve met on the internet. Aleph One would be sad.

Here’s a bonus animation on race conditions.

Also amusing — This is wired’s image for “evilhacker”.