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by romwell 694 days ago
That is indeed necessary.

But it seems to me that putting the interpreter in a place in the OS where it can cause a system crash with the be the behavior that it's allowed to do is a fundamental design choice that is not at all addressed by fuzzing.

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An interpreter that handles data downloaded from the internet even. That's an exploit waiting to happen.
I guess "fight fire with fire" is great adage, so why not fight backdoors with backdoors. What can go wrong.