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username223last Thursday at 8:30 PM1 replyview on HN

It's wild how often we rediscover that executing untrusted code leads to decades of whack-a-mole security. Excel/Word plus macros, HTML plus JavaScript, SVG plus JavaScript, ...


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eastboundlast Thursday at 8:59 PM

It’s wild how often specs are ok for 9 versions, and then at version 10, standard bodies decide to transform them into a trojan firehose.

It’s so regular like clockwork that it has to be a nation state doing this to us.

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