> There's a very good reason that so many systems block everything except port 80.
Elaborate? Rather than using different ports for different protocols and filtering what you don't want/need, you instead tunnel everything through port 80 and effectively don't filter at all?
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by shadowgovt on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:24PM
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Remember when Windows installs didn't have firewalls on by default and it was pretty trivial to attack people's installations via insufficiently-secure protocols running on open ports? It was a bad time.
HTTP has both elaborate tooling for deep packet analysis and a battle-hardened secured protocol, which we don't get with new protocols.
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by BlueTemplar on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:17AM
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Well, yes, we used to not care about security as much.
These days, don't you think that consumer routers sold without firewalls should be about as illegal as selling cars with only motor braking ?
There's a very good reason that so many systems block everything except port 80. Does the idea of protocols instead of platforms address that reason? Because most people don't want to make themselves vulnerable to attacks along threat vectors they aren't even aware exist.