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It's called a bug. It gets fixed. There's nothing special about this type of bug any more than any bug in the browser.


Remote screenshoting of hours old content across distinct local user accounts is perhaps more serious than many other bugs, especially when there seems to be a blame game going between the app/os/gpu vendors.


And in the mean time you share your porn with NSA for few years.


Well, the problem is it isn't a single bug, WebGL is an entire minefield of bugs. OpenGL drivers were generally never written with security in mind, and now all of a sudden we've got untrusted code able to poke away at them.

WebGL being enabled by default is insanity in my opinion.




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