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In a message of Sun, 31 May 2015 09:52:29 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>How many PyPy sandboxes are being used with hostile users motivated to break
>out of the sandbox?
>
>"I wrote a sandbox which I can't break out of" is different from "I wrote a
>sandbox which nobody can break out of". Javascript is sandboxed, but due to
>bugs in implementations, Javascript-based exploits are now heavily used by
>malware. There are possibly even more Javascript-based exploits than buffer
>overflow based exploits these days, as C programmers get better at using
>automated tools that check for buffer overflows.

I don't know, as we don't really have a way of tracking who is using
PyPy for anything.  We know we have some.

Laura