Re: Bytecode: Safe or not? / luac manual

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Stefan Reich once stated:
> By total mobility I mean an infrastructure of freely available
> computation servers, open for everyone. Open like the WWW, email and
> public streets.
> 
> For that, we need to run code from untrusted sources. If we require
> trusted sources all the time, we cannot expand the system the way I
> want it to expand.

  I think what you want is "botnets".  They exist and from what I
understand, one can rent time on such botnets.  Programs move from system to
system and most of the time, the code running is from untrusted sources.  

  -spc (On the downside, botnets are typically Windows machines, but I
	digress)