title: How does a NOP sled work?
body: <p>I can't find a good source that answers this question. I know that a nop sled is a technique used to circumvent stack randomization in a buffer overflow attack, but I can't get my head around how it works.</p>
  
  <p>What's a simple example that illustrates this method?</p>
  
  <p>What do terms like 128-byte nop sled mean?</p>