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i wonder if it'd be possible to have some kinda permissions based embeddable runtime for stuff like games to include as part of their modding platforms. ideally you'd formally verify it in some meaningful way so that games using the runtime can know that untrusted code from arbitrary mods the player downloaded won't be able to do anything unscrupulous, like store huge data or connect to the internet, without their express consent
im sure there's problems with this idea tho lmao
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like, in order to do it properly you'd have to also trust that untrusted mod code can't exploit the interface between the mod platform runtime and the rest of the game to do something unscrupulous, and ugh
but im not trying to build a secure kernel here, just tryin to offer a bit more peace of mind, i guess. but then why go to the trouble of formal verifidhwhcujdjejebfjsjuydhcnkr
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i just think it'd be lovely if it could be easier to share small pieces of code in a trustable way
both among users and among applications themselves! i could imagine some scenarios where it might behoove an app to programmatically tell another app "hey run this on the data i'm gonna send you", an operation which is incredibly dangerous at present but would be useful if it could be made safer
idk. there's a reason i didn't go into software security haha
