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by johndoughy 1648 days ago
They must have spent tons of engineering effort to create this virtual computer to act as their foundation for further exploits. They don't deserve any sympathy of course, but it must really suck that their foundation disappears immediately with the fixed vulnerability.
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I suspect once written it can be adapted to a wide range of Turing complete instruction sets.
I actually think you can write and test a NAND gate solution in any external environment that is much easier for development and testing (say plain C on Linux),and then transpile it into any other turing complete arch. Actually this could be a really interesting project to work on: 1) Write a VM in C and 2) Write a transpile program for another turing complete arch.