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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

I am not convinced WebAssembly is a positive development for the web. The binary format makes it harder to see what a webpage is really up to. Compiling from source, as JavaScript does, seem to be preferable even at the cost of performance losses. 🤷‍♂️

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Deleted Account 1y ago

I’m convinced we need open source BSD & Linux to fix theirselves or we create new ones … right

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Deleted Account 1y ago

It does not matter if no one checks the code anyway. Malicious execution paths should not be possible in the first place.

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Jimmy Bond 1y ago

But someone CAN check the code and it's possible to get the word out when something malicious happens.

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daniele 1y ago

> makes it harder to see what a webpage is really up to

Security through obscurity?

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

I definitely don't like importing binaries into my apps.

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daniele 1y ago

Sorry, my mind completely missed the "not" at the beginning of the sentence. I was surprised you *was* convinced :)

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Sjors Provoost 1y ago

Harder than minified JavaScript?

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

I have had my turn on looking at "decompiling" minified JavaScript to look for shady things... I don't know if I could do that on wasm. Maybe with the right tooling...