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> He told Childs via translator that not only was it was his first time writing Native Client code but it was his first time dealing with a kernel exploit. To
by josteink 12y ago
> He told Childs via translator that not only was it was his first time writing Native Client code but it was his first time dealing with a kernel exploit.
To me this just confirms that no matter what the proponents say, Google native client is just another form of active x, just with a Google badge this time.
Letting a website run native code on your machine is a terrible decision, and completely disrespectful to your users.
Needles to say, I'm not going to switch to chrome anytime soon.
- mike_hearn 12y agoWell, it means you have to break out of the nacl sandbox instead of the V8 sandbox. Neither allow you to run arbitrary code and I'm not sure if there's any particular difference in hardness between them. That said - Native Client doesn't seem to be used for anything on the web. It might have been useful if other browsers had adopted it, but with Mozilla pushing asm.js I wonder at what point they decide to pull the plug on this ...