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> browser sandbox escapes happen all the time

Far far rarer than downloading a virus.

> WASM is a malware author's dream weren't enough (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/ecriminals-increasingly-use...)

Because it can run a crypto miner, really?

Using it for obfuscation doesn't really change anything. A coder that wants to obfuscate things could already run their own interpreter and/or use asm.js.



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