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Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:44:03 -0700

Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
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 ...)

??

So you think interpreted languages would be impossible with a Harvard 
architecture? Binary programs would not be able to branch based on data? 
Those would be some pretty boring programs...

                                        Ryan
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