Date sent: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:33:32 -0400 From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
