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OK, yes, I know that we all use Turing architecture, and therefore there is no inherent difference between code and data. And I'm even willing to believe that somebody building a one-off specialty program would be a bit careless about buffer overflows and such. And, yes, we used to fool around programming using only printable characters and other weird restrictions on the code. But I still say that using fractal pattterns would be a particularly inefficient way to store arbitrary code. And you'd probably have to know this one-off specialty system better than the original programmer, designer, and hardware architect to do the damage that way. (And nobody mentioned how you over-revved the CPU to get it to overheat ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org I have often stood there and looked out upon my past life and upon the different surroundings which have exercised their power upon me: and the pettiness which so often gives offense in life, the numerous misunderstandings too often separating minds which if they properly understood one another would be bound together by indissoluble ties, vanished before my gaze. - Soren Kierkegaard victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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.