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Of course! Actually, for any website that runs JS, in my opinion, we should just automatically forward the JS execution into a virtual machine, it is horrible t
by jerbear4328 3y ago
Of course! Actually, for any website that runs JS, in my opinion, we should just automatically forward the JS execution into a virtual machine, it is horrible to allow any random website to just run code directly on our machine.
What if we built this virtual sandbox directly into the browser, that way no code could run on our machine, but all websites still work fine? That's revolutionary!
Hang on...
- superkuh 3y agoWebsites are at least supposedly sandboxed so they are not as much of a risk as running native binaries. But this is getting worse and worse though as browsers expose more and more of their host operating system's functionality (and more and more speculation CPU bugs make sandboxing as a concept appear infeasible). The benefits of using a website instead of a native application are quickly disappearing, while the drawbacks have only been somewhat mitigated.
- smaudet 3y agoIf you could actually control the virtualization in the browser, that would be good. Unfortunately you are just left trusting that it is even virtualized (properly).