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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by littlestymaar on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:46AM (#19520759)
The goal is to allow existing C code to run, so in the end you'll need the same freedom when it comes to memory access. The difference between this and plain process is that the sandbox uses a capability-based security model, instead of giving all the user's rights to the process [1].

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...

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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by hawski on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:03PM (#19522808)
There is not a mention of memory safety in this post. It's very confusing term in this context. I wouldn't call running a binary with syscall interception (with qemu for example) as "memory safe".
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