Like many, I have a hunch that as WASM proliferates, in addition to all the (legitimately) cool apps we will have abusive (intentionally or not) behavior like uninspectable canvas-only webpages.
My ask is: does anyone have examples of sites that already use WASM unnecessarily, or as an obfuscation or DRM tactic?
I ask because I want to look into the state of tooling to allow users to augment those sites to be more friendly.
👤 mikewarot Accepted Answer ✓
WASM code can only access the resources the outside JavaScript tool makes available to it. In theory, Satan himself could write the most clever WASM code ever, and it couldn't do anything that the outside JavaScript didn't permit. This is the beauty of capability based security.