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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by nine_k on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:09AM (#29636995)
What if browsers learned to connect to Unix sockets? And windows named pipes? And users could control these endpoints by the usual filesystem permissions?

One can dream.

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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by meepmorp on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:35AM (#29639015)
Isn't this more or less the idea behind plan 9?
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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by Arnavion on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:32PM (#29642360)
You don't even need Windows named pipes. Windows supports AF_UNIX since 10.
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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by turminal on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:22AM (#29637105)
More scope creep?

Browser are already way too big.

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