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Yeah, great. Transform everything into opaque binary blobs, as far as the eye can see. Wonderful. Thanks for nothing.
by opacityIsCool 11y ago
Yeah, great. Transform everything into opaque binary blobs, as far as the eye can see. Wonderful.
Thanks for nothing.
- T-A 11y agoFrom http://webassembly.github.io/ http://webassembly.github.io/ : "Open and debuggable: WebAssembly is designed to be pretty-printed in a textual format for debugging, testing, experimenting, optimizing, learning, teaching, and writing programs by hand. The textual format will be used when viewing the source of wasm modules on the web."
- opacityIsCool 11y agoYeah, nice, this and and so many other formats, that people just throw up their hands and give up on, when confronted with the raw binaries they work with on a daily basis, are simply open and wonderful all the time. Except not. Portable Executables. ELF binaries. Zip Files. Open Image Formats. All of these are theoretically open, and perfectly accessible to all, in their raw form. And yet broadly inaccessible to like 90% of the world's lay people, since the concept of an interpreter eludes them, and in some cases is explicitly denied to them. The same will happen with this. This puts things on a shelf, well out of reach to many more people. And a very small group of people love that. So, while encrypted smart phones and email "go dark" on mass surveillance, the rest of everything else "goes dark" for ordinary people.