Thanks guys I think what happened was that I was already feeling quite sick and the next day I had a bad fever and we all know how clear we think during a fever. I re-read the chapter and your comments and hey, I get it. Thanks

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To anybody who reads this because they searched the forums for "buffer overflow" in the hopes of getting it explained. If all of this didn't make sense.. The code actually tries to grap the SFP (stack/saved frame pointer) because if it grabs SFP it can reference to all local variables by subtracting a bit from the memory value of the SFP.

It's kinda like a guess-game and that's why you use NOP-sleds and such to make it easier to guess a spot..