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MrX
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Re: Online program
« Reply #18 on: Oct 1st, 2013, 11:43am » |
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on Oct 1st, 2013, 11:36am, Richard Russell wrote:If I had a personal web server - and I didn't want it to run Windows - I would be prepared to do that; Wine is not a major overhead at run-time. But Brandy or Owl Basic (if and when it's ever finished) might be better choices, since they are more lightweight.
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Richard, it has very little to do with the load it may put on a server but more to do with security loop holes associated with them.
on Oct 1st, 2013, 11:36am, Richard Russell wrote:Given that support for graphics and GUI widgets would be irrelevant in a CGI application, another possibility would be recompiling BB4W as a Linux console application. That is something that has been on my wish list for a long time.
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Then why not use FASM? and simply include the BBC BASIC syntax as macros?
on Oct 1st, 2013, 11:36am, Richard Russell wrote:In that case writing a CGI application in an obscure language like BBC BASIC, which is unlikely to be targetted by hackers, sounds like a good idea! 
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It has nothing to do with the obscurity of a language as once it's compiled, it's all much of a muchness.
It's how the Windows Kernel treats apps that have crashed that open ups security flaws.
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Re: Online program
« Reply #19 on: Oct 1st, 2013, 12:00pm » |
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on Oct 1st, 2013, 11:43am, MrX wrote:| Then why not use FASM? and simply include the BBC BASIC syntax as macros? |
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Clearly you don't know very much about BBC BASIC if you think that would be "simple", or indeed even practical.
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A buffer overflow attack relies on knowledge of the code being targetted (e.g. by disassembling), so obscurity is beneficial. It's user-mode code (not the kernel) which is vulnerable.
This has drifted off-topic now, and I have better things to do, so I am locking the thread.
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