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		tkot on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transitio... What is the reason why Java and Flash runtimes were somehow more prone to malware but JS seems fine? Is it some specific sandboxing technology or something else entirely?

randomifcpfan on April 17, 2022 [–]

All three runtimes are/were regularly compromised, so there’s no fundamental difference between them.

Flash suffered from not having a spec other than its implementation. Made it hard to fix bugs while being backwards compatible

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