Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by baddox on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:44AM
(#15282077)
I don't really see any new threat from WebAssembly. Isn't the only threat that the same malicious code can run with better performance than JavaScript? As far as I can tell, WebAssembly doesn't provide any additional access to native system features like this DRM spec does.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by gsnedders on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:22AM
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WASM is strictly less powerful than JS.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by baddox on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:36PM
(#15286794)
Indeed, from what I'm reading it looks like most of the usual JS tasks (like DOM manipulation, listening to input, and network requests) still need to happen by your WebAssembly module calling out to normal JS.