Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
by vntok on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:07PM
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> Reviewing code with meaningless variable names is still several orders of magnitude harder than reviewing the original code though.
Automated checking tools don't really care about human-friendly user functions' names. They will however check for calls to dangerous APIs (eg: XMLHttpRequest(url), eval(stuff) ) and some dangerous patterns (eg: background actions unprompted by the user ).
Automated checking tools don't really care about human-friendly user functions' names. They will however check for calls to dangerous APIs (eg: XMLHttpRequest(url), eval(stuff) ) and some dangerous patterns (eg: background actions unprompted by the user ).