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1. superkuh · 1790470684 · focus · HN ↗

   This shouldn't be a problem right? Javascript is by default allowed to execute on your PC in every modern browser. The days where people did not blindly execute arbitrary code from unknown and random sources are far in the past. Now if you don't do that you are considered weird and no websites actually display anything when you attempt to view them.

   This is not a bug. This is the the entire design architecture's intent for modern JS application execution based "web". If this was the correct choice for the web then this should not be a problem at all. But we all know it is. The architecture choice forces this. Until we stop arbitrarily executing random third party code this will always happen. And the consequences will get worse and worse as more bare metal features are exposed in to browsers JS virtual machines.

   Be the change in the world you want to see. Turn javascript off. Use real native applications that cannot change underneath you.

   1. winstonwinston · 1790478182 · focus · HN ↗

      > Be the change in the world you want to see. Turn javascript off. Use real native applications that cannot change underneath you.

      But they can change (underneath). Native app is one bug away from arbitrary code execution. When remote content triggers this bug, it becomes RCE. In this case it was javascript engine bug, in any other it could be your photo viewer or whatever native code you are running with untrusted content. The untrusted content being an image you are viewing.

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