Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:33:32 -0400
From:                   "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>

> I'm not sure how Harvard Architecture, whatever it might be, would protect
> against SQL injection and XSS errors.  

Kids these days.

Harvard architecture, unlike von Neumann architecture, had a strict separation of 
progrma and data store and representation.  It would have been impossible for a 
program to modify its own or other executable material.  Data was not executable, 
so SQL injection and XSS would have been impossible.  (So would a lot of other 
things, but ...)

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