Creating a relatively unique environment for computing platforms

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of one or more computer systems, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

• detecting, by a monitoring process running on a computer system, an attempt to execute a computer program installed on the computer system;
• responsive to said detecting, transforming, by the computer system, the computer program from a locally unique form into an executable form using a diversity mechanism by causing a protected pre-execution process associated with a kernel of an operating system of the computer system to be applied to the computer program;
• wherein the computer program was previously installed on the computer system in the locally unique form in which semantics of the computer program have been altered based on the diversity mechanism;
• wherein execution of the locally unique form of the computer program will fail to perform as intended on the computer system unless the locally unique form of the computer program is first or concurrently transformed, using the diversity mechanism, into the executable form of the computer program having correct semantics;
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• wherein use of the diversity mechanism differentiates an execution or loading environment associated with the computer system from that of other computer systems by affecting operational behavior of computer programs attempting to execute on the computer system.