Meredith L. Patterson πŸ’‰πŸ’‰ Profile picture
Parsers and parsing accessories. Para-academic. Rootless cosmopolitan redneck. Writes for @Status451Blog. 'Juvenile but not white supremacist' -- @splcenter
Dec 26, 2020 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
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A #langsec take on berthub.eu/articles/posts…:

Okay, so basically the reason mRNA vaccines work is 1) a parser differential between how the immune system interprets an unfamiliar token (the πŸ”± nucleoside) and how ribosomes interpret it, 2/

and a subtle semantic bug arising from disparate handling of different representations of an ambiguously representable parse result. The language of mRNA is nondeterministic, and that’s exploitable.

@PowerDNS_Bert’s explanation is really good and you should go read it.