On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:53:10 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >> And what about dumps? > >Operating systems have magic tricks up their sleeves. > >> One motivation was to protect intellectual property > >Risking topic drift there but a major motivation is security. ... >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_space_protection > Certain topic drift as I ponder a feature that exists only on processors other than z.
But if IP protection is a concern. the system and policies must take care that unauthorized eyes can't view a dump of proprietary code. Still, I'd be surprised if no hacker has ever dumped the ROM of an iPhone. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
