> > I forgot to include the potential for malware. Some links: > According to the research mentioned in your third link that claims half of the web sites using wasm use it maliciously, the malicious usage consist in obfuscating and mining.
According to the first link, from the figure 4 it is clear that malicious site will use users CPU to mine cryptocurrency even if the web browser doesn't support wasm. So it is not only wasm's fault. <https://www.virusbulletin.com/files/7115/3933/8355/dark-side-webassembly-fig4.jpg> By definition wasm code can't do anything that ordinary javascript in the browser can't do. If obfuscation is malicious then I don't know any serious web site today that isn't malicious, because every web page uses minimized and very often obfuscated javascript. So, as far as I am concerned, obfuscation is not malicious per se. Concerning user tracking, all major social networks use it all the time, regardless of wasm. We are writing on the google forum and google use our posts to dig some data from them. Who knows how many of us on this forum have gmail accounts, github accounts,... all these platforms collect data about us and about the way we use internet. They have done this long before wasm technology. Therefore I don't see any special threat in using and spreading wasm technology. Comparison with the Flash technology is a bit stretched (IMHO). Flash was used to overcome some deficiencies in browsers, their incompatibilities and yes flash had some potential for writing malicious software. But wasm is much safer and it relies on the browser safety mechanisms, it doesn't have to be enabled or installed by the user. It is an integral part of newer web browsers, no less than the javascript is. Vitalije -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/8b3961ac-760f-420f-aa48-1a1fa0eb3efbo%40googlegroups.com.
