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the moment a computer stops reading your intentions and starts testing them.
means the process by which a program's instructions are actually run by a machine, turning written logic into real effects.
from traces back to von neumann's stored-program architecture in the 1940s, where instructions and data lived in the same memory — meaning a program could, in theory, treat itself as data to be modified or run.
remote code executionthe phrase security teams dread most in reports
compiled vs interpreteddetermines when translation to machine steps happens
sandboxinginvented specifically to contain execution's blast radius
self-modifying codeprograms that rewrite their own instructions mid-run