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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by grondilu on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:47AM (#14928251)
"Microsoft’s ActiveX[1] was a technology for code-signing x86 binaries to run on the Web. It relied entirely upon code signing and thus did not achieve safety through technical construction, but through a trust model."

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/papers/pldi2...

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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by sqeaky on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:33PM (#14930356)
And no one used that trust model. Every place I was aware I was using activex, even deploying it in a few places, part of the process was showing the users how how to click the "Run Anyway" or "Ignore security warnings" type of buttons. It was such a night mare for support.
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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by tejtm on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:49PM (#14930973)
The web was never composed of x86 hardware
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