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Re:Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port by vardump on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:24AM (#17722225)
I don't understand how that helps to prevent reading anything.

8051 can read data from both CODE and XDATA memory spaces.

See: http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/is51/is51_movc.htm

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Re:Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port by pkaye on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:54PM (#17726631)
Forgot to mention those two instruction will be disabled in flash protected mode.
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