Crashing Java with sun.misc.Unsafe

Note from the author: the purpose of this article is to explain and educate about the JVM. Please do not use any of the information from this article for malicious purposes. The experiments in this article were written in Java 8, results may vary in more recent versions.

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Background

The beauty of Java is that you can compile your program on one machine, but you can run it…