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Re:DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer by samfisher83 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @04:09PM (#16011054)
Do you know what JVM , Node, python runtimes are written in? Its not like there aren't bugs in other software. When you have millions of lines of code there is always going to be something that some one forgot to think about.

Unless you have a very trivial program I think its hard to make anything "unhackable."

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Re:DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer by romwell on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:05AM (#16013196)
>JVM

Well, here's a Java Virtual Machine written in Java: https://github.com/beehive-lab/Maxine-VM

Not to counter your point, but to keep the discussion going :)_

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Re:DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer by arbusername on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:41PM (#16012465)
> Do you know what JVM , Node, python runtimes are written in?

this doesn't matter to its following theses:

> Its not like there aren't bugs in other software.

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