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		skybrian on Feb 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Securing Firefox with WebAssembly Maybe the question I should have asked is what sort of protection does it provide beyond a normal compile and how useful is it? It seems like there is some kind of cross-module memory protection? Maybe Erlang would be an interesting comparison?

saagarjha on Feb 26, 2020 [–]

It prevents a bug in your text rendering module from logging you in as admin, which is usually not the case inside a single process.

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