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by Semaphor 2422 days ago
Timing attacks. Not really pluggable.
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It's eminently pluggable if you stop running hostile general-purpose code on our own machines, giving it a large poorly-defined attack surface! That's the eventual answer here. Websites have a perfectly cromulent place to run whatever code they'd like - on their own servers. If you knew someone was trying to kill you, you wouldn't invite them into your home for a party so they could easily tamper with your medicine cabinet.