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by graycat 3084 days ago
Maybe with the new, secure stuff, have it implement a padded cell where can run the old stuff. What's inside the padded cell might become a security disaster, but at least it's kept inside the cell.

We've done more or less that several times in computing: At first the code just ran on the computer and had full access to everything. Soon we got memory protection, privileged instructions, and operating systems. Then we got rings of security, virtual memory, virtual machines, etc.

We can do it again.