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Java was wildly successful. It was kicked out of browsers because of its huge attack surface. WASM implementations seem to be going with a sandbox approach out

by sp332 7y ago

Java was wildly successful. It was kicked out of browsers because of its huge attack surface. WASM implementations seem to be going with a sandbox approach out of the gate.

pjmlp 7y ago
A sandbox mostly used by cryptominers already.
- sp332 7y ago
  This is just snark. Confining malware to the sandbox is a win. Malware authors would love to load something more damaging and more valuable, and they fall back to cryptomining as a last resort to get value out of your machine.