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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by xelamonster on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:48PM (#41724395)
I'm not familiar with the security guarantees of WASM in the browser but I imagine they're more along the lines of preventing data exfiltration from the browser/OS, it would be difficult to prevent something like abusing your CPU resources to mine Bitcoin in the background for example.
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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by Etherlord87 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:12PM (#41752177)
One way to protect yourself from bitcoin mining is to not give a WASM program both an access to get incoming data and send data both into a 3rd party server. Another possibility is to threshold computation power on the WASM interpreter so that there's a limit of opcodes processed.
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