[silvestrov]

Now you have code stored in your database which you don't know what will do when you execute it.

Sounds very much like the security pain from macros in Excel and Microsoft Word that could do anything.

This is why most PDF readers will ignore any javascript embedded inside PDF files.

[tsukikage]

It gets even better further down the paper!

"In case users prefer native decoding speed over Wasm, F3 plans to offer an option to associate a URL with each Wasm binary, pointing to source code or a precompiled library."

[discreteevent]

They are not suggesting that the code at the url would be automatically downloaded. It would be up to you to get the code and build it into your application like any other library.

[Certhas]

Is this relevant in practice? Say I go to a website to download some data, but a malicious actor has injected an evil decoder (that does what exactly?). They could just have injected the wasm into the website I am visiting to get the data!

In fact, wasm was explicitly designed for me to run unverified wasm blobs from random sources safely on my computer.

[mr_toad]

Excel, Word and PDF readers weren’t properly sandboxed.