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> There were no end to people who thought integrating the web browser with the OS was pure lunacy that was going to result in an endless string of compromised m
by musicale 4y ago
> There were no end to people who thought integrating the web browser with the OS was pure lunacy that was going to result in an endless string of compromised machines
Fortunately OS and web browser developers didn't really consider that to be a big problem so they did it anyway and implemented a system that downloaded random code from the internet and happily executed it in a non-secure sandbox on top of an OS filled with exploitable security flaws. See: Java, Flash, JavaScript, webasm, PDF, canvas, etc.. Not that it mattered too much anyway since media and HTML renderers were already exploitable.