[saidajigumi]

if an attacker is porting the attack to Macs (presumably a lot of work)

It's worth noting that a professional security and pentest company I know of had a Python-based exploit authoring DSL that automatically generated exploit code across a very wide range of processor architectures and OSes. This was about fifteen years ago.

[stcredzero]

It's worth noting that a professional security and pentest company I know of had a Python-based exploit authoring DSL that automatically generated exploit code across a very wide range of processor architectures and OSes.

Makes sense. If entire OSes can be written in an intermediate representation, then exploits can be as well.

[kseifried]

You mean Core Impact? =).

[saidajigumi]

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