[triplesec]

This is fascinating. Do you have any examples or stories of such 'weird machines'?

[schoen]

The concept is presented in

http://www.langsec.org/papers/Bratus.pdf

I think people have found a number of other, well, weird examples. I found

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot15/workshop-program/pr...

via Google Scholar and there are more papers on this theme if you search for "weird machines" there. It seems like a helpful way to think about this issue!

[ChoHag]

At a higher level than the other guy, and not precisely the same thing:

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/02/02/ebay-platform-exposed-...

[lawnchair_larry]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot13/woot13...

[triplesec]

many thanks, peoples