Let’s take Lemmy UIs as an example. In a world where this “RCE” is removed, all API calls and returned data would have to go through a “server client” first. I hope this won’t take you long to ponder if that’s an improvement or not 😉
The web is indeed shit. But dumber web means more “clouding”, or if it’s not “clouding”, and to borrow from your reductionist fatalism: Dumber web replaces a potential RCE with a definite MITM.
make RCE a second class feature instead
What RCE are you talking about?
wasm and js are by definition remote code execution
“oh but is sandboxed” how many sandbox bypass and sanbox escape CVEs have we had? incountably many
beyond that, that is code using your cpu cycles often inefficiently and for useless purposes or outright malicious purposes such as tracking
Let’s take Lemmy UIs as an example. In a world where this “RCE” is removed, all API calls and returned data would have to go through a “server client” first. I hope this won’t take you long to ponder if that’s an improvement or not 😉
The web is indeed shit. But dumber web means more “clouding”, or if it’s not “clouding”, and to borrow from your reductionist fatalism: Dumber web replaces a potential RCE with a definite MITM.
I’m guessing, they mean JavaScript and WebAssembly in general…
All the RCE vulnerabilities that Apple introduced as “features”