It is possible that I am misremembering. I remember him submitting a bug and being ignored as a crank, though ;-). It may have been some other kind of memory corruption.
It's hard to believe that it's only been since the late 90's that buffer overruns exploits have been around. I will have to believe you as you have considerably more knowledge on the subject than me.
I'm very much wondering now about the times I used to boot trace games to crack them and if I ever used such a technique. It seems so obvious now that I may be assuming that I must have, but it's so long ago that I really can't remember. Certainly getting the loader to move your code around rather than theirs was a normal trick.
It's hard to believe that it's only been since the late 90's that buffer overruns exploits have been around. I will have to believe you as you have considerably more knowledge on the subject than me.
I'm very much wondering now about the times I used to boot trace games to crack them and if I ever used such a technique. It seems so obvious now that I may be assuming that I must have, but it's so long ago that I really can't remember. Certainly getting the loader to move your code around rather than theirs was a normal trick.