Naturally, to prevent you from firing up GCC and doing a rogue compilation of DeCSS or Lame or other unauthorized code, the operating system will have to stop you from running anything that isn't written in its language for its virtual machine.
In the 1960s, the Burroughs line of mainframes had
very good security for the time. This was accomplished in a large part by requiring everything to be compiled with the Burroughs Algol compiler. If one could escape enough to execute a single arbitrary machine instruction, the system could be broken into.
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In the 1960s, the Burroughs line of mainframes had very good security for the time. This was accomplished in a large part by requiring everything to be compiled with the Burroughs Algol compiler. If one could escape enough to execute a single arbitrary machine instruction, the system could be broken into.
It sounds like this is deja vu all over again.