Re:Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
by bitwize on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:56PM
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I remember a couple of (grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of, like the "master" branch in git[0]) security researchers who developed a Scheme runtime and VM for malware payloads called Wasp. The skeevy 2000s adware company Direct Revenue also used TinyScheme.
[0] https://www.aswf.io/blog/inclusive-language/
If this is a thing, I've never heard of anyone caring about it. No need to manufacture outrage at manufactured outrage.