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Why can't we just make it so that only the user requests are allowed to connect to the internet? From the address bar, or from a video game?
by Grakel 6y ago
Why can't we just make it so that only the user requests are allowed to connect to the internet? From the address bar, or from a video game?
- salawat 6y agoShort answer: It doesn't work that way. Long answer: Developers, or more specifically, Microsoft PM's would keelhaul you for cutting of that stream of sweet, sweet, monetizable data, and regardless, with the right scripting, there is no difference between user input regardless of whether it is you with a mouse or a malicious actor dropping a payload to run shellcode. The vulnerability is something encountered through dropping a specially crafted media file into a pipeline of hardware encoder/decoders that apparently goes through a poorly developed section of Windows.