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Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by gmueckl on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:06PM (#21727724)
If the inner browser has its own client certificate or simply checks for a set of known server certificates, MITM won't get you anywhere. Done right, this could well be game over.
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by int_19h on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:04PM (#21738694)
For it to be truly game over, the wasm implementation it's running on must also protect the wasm payload itself, otherwise it would be trivial to patch that to MITM it.

So, on something like iOS, it could be game over (but I'm also curious what Apple is going to do with wasm there, given that it goes contrary to their strategy of being the gatekeeper for all code running on the platform). But not for the rest.

Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by gmueckl on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:01AM (#21771110)
Adding a ton of obfuscation will do the trick. Patching wasm requires reverse engineering and that is very cumbersome. For Blu-Ray it took months to reverse engineer the copy protection VM and that was with a mechanism that took a lot of attention. If it's your average website, it's far easier to stay ahead of the game.