x86 Assembly Questions

$ cat bork.asm

section .data
fuck: dd 0xDEADBEEF

section .text
global _start
_start:
mov dword [fuck],0xABADC0DA

mov eax,1
mov ebx,0
int 0x80


Why doesn't writing to the .data segment segfault? Shouldn't Linux map it to a read-only page?

$ nasm -f elf bork.asm
$ gold -s -o bork-gold bork.asm
$ ld -s -melf_i386 -o bork-ld bork.o
$ du -bh *
432 bork-gold
132 bork.asm
340 bork-ld
608 bork.o


How does such a minimal binary take up 300+ bytes?

>>51

Cracking becomes useless skill today, because software moves to the cloud. It was really funny, when these faggots found that Diablo 3 cannot be cracked, because the game logic is in the cloud.

Today it is mostly reverse engineering (when Chinese manage steal American aircraft and want to RE its stuffing) and supporting legacy code (when employer lost his sources).