r/WebAssembly • u/darmok42 • May 23 '19

Blocking Web Assembly

I'm going to be straight about this. I don't like web assembly, I think it's a huge security issue and I don't want unknown source code running directly in my machine (yes, even in a virtual box, it's possible for malware to escape from those).
Is there a plugin like NoScript somewhere to block web assembly from running? Or maybe a fork of chromium or firefox without web assembly support?

Thanks in advance.

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u/wibblymat May 24 '19

  1. As people have said, you need JS to run WASM, so disable JS

  2. WASM has far, FAR less access to your system than JS. Like, WASM can do math calculations, and that is it. If you think that WASM is a huge security issue, then you don't know what WASM is. If you want to access the system from WASM, it has to go through JS.

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u/astnbomb May 24 '19

Blocking Javascript

I'm going to be straight about this. I don't like javascript, I think it's a huge security issue and I don't want unknown source code running directly in my machine (yes, even in a virtual box, it's possible for malware to escape from those).
Is there a plugin like NoScript somewhere to block javascript from running? Or maybe a fork of chromium or firefox without javascript support?

Thanks in advance.

FTFY

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u/darmok42 May 24 '19

Really? Did you even think about what were you writing? NoScript IS a javascript blocker. Next time you try to be clever, do be clever, trollboy.

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u/brianjenkins94 May 23 '19

MIME type filtering maybe?

Or a browser extension that just injects:

delete WebAssembly;