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>users of single-user personal computers and self-hosted services are quite immune by default Well, except for people using web browsers…
by anon1385 9y ago
>users of single-user personal computers and self-hosted services are quite immune by default
Well, except for people using web browsers…
- andy_ppp 9y agoYes was going to say exactly this; how dangerous is Javascript, Image Decoding and Web Assembly in this new world?
- simias 9y agoJavascript and Web Assembly are only dangerous because of this insane policy on the web that everything is whitelisted by default. Fortunately there are extensions to change that behavior but most people won't bother with them, leading web developers to assume that JS is enabled and the site breaking if it's not. In our rush to get rid of Flash on the web we turned the web into Flash. At least it's an open standard now, I suppose. Images and other codecs might also be an issue but it seems like a more complicated attack vector and one that could be mitigated more effectively.
- arghwhat 9y agoOr use applications they probably didn't do a full audit of...