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"Microsoft’s ActiveX[1] was a technology for code-signing x86 binaries to run on the Web. It relied entirely upon code signing and thus did not achieve safety t
by grondilu 9y ago
"Microsoft’s ActiveX[1] was a technology for code-signing x86 binaries to run on the Web. It relied entirely upon code signing and thus did not achieve safety through technical construction, but through a trust model."
https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/papers/pldi2017.pdf https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/papers/pldi2...
- sqeaky 9y agoAnd no one used that trust model. Every place I was aware I was using activex, even deploying it in a few places, part of the process was showing the users how how to click the "Run Anyway" or "Ignore security warnings" type of buttons. It was such a night mare for support.
- tejtm 9y agoThe web was never composed of x86 hardware