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		Rotten194 on Dec 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom Shell: Cross-platform desktop application she... The idea of running a Javascript interpreter as root is more than somewhat worrying...

FooBarWidget on Dec 25, 2014 [–]

Why? You're already running an x86 "interpreter" (aka native code) as root, which is arguably even more dangerous than Javascript because of unsafe memory access.

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