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Re:Electron is Harmful by TheCoreh on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:56PM (#15762426)
While that's true, electron apps very rarely provide unrestricted web browsing of untrusted content. They're usually locked to a single domain, or load their entire interface from local files.
Re:Electron is Harmful by jsnar on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:14PM (#15762473)
This doesn't make it safe -- consider a lower level library inside Chromium can be exploited when processing input data. Your chat app can be exploited by receiving a crafted image. This actually happened in image processing library and network library in Chromium.
Re:Electron is Harmful by TheCoreh on Thursday November 23, 2017 @05:59AM (#15764287)
Sure, but the same can happen to whatever libraries you use on your native app. If anything Chromium is more likely to be patched, since there's a large entity interested in keeping it secure enough for accessing untrusted content.