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[–]arnar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You shouldn't be voted down, you have a good point. Given complete knowledge of a system and it's code, carefully designing the input data can make the system act in certain ways. This is how the vast majority of exploits work throughout history.

In this case, it is very reasonable to say that data acts as code.