Not enabled by default making them less effective than they should be.

Locke1689 · on March 5, 2011

What are you talking about? This is prima facie untrue.

mixmastamyk · on March 6, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention#Windo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomizat...

Backward compatibility prevents most of these from being utilized fully, a shame.

Locke1689 · on March 6, 2011

ASLR is mostly enabled, especially in 64-bit binaries. W^X protection is always enabled on 64-bit binaries. Service hardening and privilege separation are enabled by default always.