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If it were a default prohibition that could be overridden for a project that really needs it, I wouldn't complain. But as it is it's an unreasonable cost for th
by abecedarius 14y ago
If it were a default prohibition that could be overridden for a project that really needs it, I wouldn't complain. But as it is it's an unreasonable cost for the benefit for everyone but the platform owner. (Cost: obvious. Benefit: some hacks get harder, but with no essential change to what's possible in the way that memory protection or high-level programming languages change the game. E.g. instead of native code your hack uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming .)