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I know it can be sandboxed, but it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up to think that something people type into a search box on a web page gets turne
by willvarfar 10y ago
I know it can be sandboxed, but it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up to think that something people type into a search box on a web page gets turned into machine code and executed.. :)
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- mkup 10y agoIt's no big deal as long as JIT compiled code is restricted to the safe subset of instructions. For example, in FreeBSD BPFs (berkeley packet filters) are JIT compiled and directly executed in the kernel mode.