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Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by tinus_hn on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:53PM (#29617019)
Javascript is Turing complete so it is impossible to determine what the script is going to do in all environments without running it in all environments.

The script could just detect the test environment and avoid triggering its malicious behavior.

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Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the ... by charcircuit on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:30PM (#29618029)
>Javascript is Turing complete so it is impossible to determine what the script is going to do in all environments without running it in all environments.

No, it just means that it is impossible to do for every program. Google could just make it reject scripts it is unable to handle.

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