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Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

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Re: Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

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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/

Re: Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

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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/

> grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of

If this is a thing, I've never heard of anyone caring about it. No need to manufacture outrage at manufactured outrage.