About this tradeoff: 1. The military, governments at all levels, law enforcement, emergency services, civilian infrastructure like power plants—all use the Internet. Adding weaknesses and vulnerabilities to the American military is what Sen. Blackburn is calling for today.
2. The overwhelming consensus is that systems with back doors are less secure (just like the metaphor and a little common sense would tell you). Congress isn't magic. They could pass a law saying back doors are secure, but that would not make them secure.
Jul 18, 2019 • 49 tweets • 11 min read
JavaScript WeakRefs and finalizers are on the way to becoming a standard. This is terrible, terrible news and if you use JS you should know some stuff. github.com/tc39/proposal-…
PART THE FIRST: WeakRefs are toxic
Jul 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I have learned the most wonderful thing about parsing JS.
The other day I was chatting with @loganfsmyth about JS parsers. What if, I said, we made a fast JS parser that could compile to wasm? Could any existing JS-ecosystem projects use that? What about Babel? It must have a parser of some kind. And he's like “ok, SO...”
