A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vuln in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history – though he admits it has "no real-world implications".
In a paper published on academic repository ArXiv, Johnson cheerfully explained that his findings wouldn't be exploitable in a real-world scenario because it pertained specifically to the 1967 implementation [PDF] of the simulated Universal Turing Machine (UTM) designed by the late Marvin Minsky, who co-founded the academic discipline of artificial intelligence.
Yet what the amusing little caper really brings to the world is a philosophical point: if one of the simplest concepts of a computer is vulnerable to user meddling, where in the design process should we st ..
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