Ah, bloat as a security feature. I keep learning new things here!
Re:Make Linux Fast Again (2019)
by animalCrax0rz on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:36PM
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the minimum essential behavior to implement a feature is one that takes into consideration keeping the user safe from attacks... you could call that bloat, but I wouldn't be sarcastic about it: if you can make the mitigations more concise, you can contribute your ideas, no one stopping you.
The other angle of attack that used to be viable was documented in this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14057091
But AFAIK all browsers have disabled SAB, e.g. see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
EDIT:
Chrome has re-enabled SAB, with mitigations.