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How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC

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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. II2II · 1790484063 · focus · HN ↗
  > Be the change in the world you want to see. Turn javascript off. Use real native applications that cannot change underneath you.
  I'm not terribly familiar with this sort of software, but isn't the reason for embedding Chromium to have access to JavaScript. Sure, it was intended for the person running the OBS instance. Yet offering the end user that much power also opens up the possibility of them shooting themselves in the foot.

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