Kees Cook

I grew up in Chicago, went to a public highschool, and managed to get myself into the Engineering College at the University of Illinois . I majored in Computer Science there because I've been into computers since my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX80.

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Enable ARMv9 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) on Pixel 8

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The Pixel 8 hardware ( Tensor G3 ) supports the ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) , and software support is available both in Android userspace and the Linux kernel. This feature is a powerful defense against linear buffer overflows and many types of use-after-free flaws. I’m extremely happy to see this hardware…