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> One might envision some language environment that can track taint-style the flow of data through an application, but this seems beyond state-of-the-art. Worl
by orlp 4y ago
> One might envision some language environment that can track taint-style the flow of data through an application, but this seems beyond state-of-the-art.
World of Warcraft has had this in its addon system for over 15 years: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Secure_Execution_and_Tainting https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Secure_Execution_and_Tainti... . It completely controls the language (embedded Lua) and execution environment though.
- saagarjha 4y agoMost developers are generally unable to write apps in an environment like this.