[aprssig] Secutiry for the aprs protocol and software

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Scott Miller wrote:

> I'm not convinced that it's THAT impossible, but you're right, it'd be 
> entirely dependent on the client software.  Has anyone ever looked closely at 
> potential buffer overflows in APRS clients?

Yes.  I gave a crack at fixing such in Xastir several years back
which resulted in hundreds of changes in string handling routines.

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