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So what? Linux, today, has a full bytecode interpreter

• internals 10y ago
  Bigger attack surface in the kernel, for something that doesn't need to be there, and that is historically very difficult to code securely.
• ryuuchin 10y ago
  grsecurity just disables it outright IIRC (the new one that was added sort of recently, probably year+ at this point).