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Comment by bitwize

1 year ago

> The font shaping engine Harfbuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm shaper allowing arbitrary code to be used to "shape" text.

Oh, this can't be used for nefarious purposes. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

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oopsallmagic  1 year ago

The engine isn't built with it by default, so this is a non-issue.

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