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I used to use Aleph One's article as a kind of shibboleth when interviewing candidates for security researchers. I'd just casually say "Smashing the stack..." and see if they would fill in the rest of the title.

Not the best data point, but showed pretty quickly who had a self-taught (and usually practical) understanding of security vulnerabilities vs an academic understanding.

That's a class move and you are probably a cool person to work with.

That was not sarcasm.

Some updates:

Smashing the Stack in 2010 (linux, windows) - http://www.mgraziano.info/docs/stsi2010.pdf

Smashing the Stack in Windows 8 - https://archive.org/details/SmashingW8Stack

i like this one better.