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Re: About "cloud" and WebAssembly (long talk about piracy!)

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Groo Vee wrote:
> OK, so, as I understand it, this shift to "cloud" is all about eradicating PIRACY, right? MS etc. lose *so much* to piracy, especially in these parts of the world (I'm in Asia), that after 40 or so years, they got fed up and decided to DO something about it. Hence - now, everything is going to shift to "in-browser", traditional EXEs are Dead. INCLUDING, APPARENTLY, Windows itself!!! :
*  Moving programs/"apps" from the desktop licensing scheme to the cloud 
is a capitalistic money-grabbing method of controlling peons.
   Your ass is grass and they are the lawnmower.


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> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-working-on-an-azure-powered-cloud-pc-service/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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> The 2nd part of things is, of course, WebAssembly - because having a web app in *source JS* format would be the height of stupidity - that would be cracked, if you can even call it that, and be up on a torrent or whatever, within a minute! So - we get a "binary something" format, which is, well, BINARY! (and not just that, C++ compiles to it or something, so the last 40 years or so of C++ devs and their software are now suddenly.... Available!). Cool! (I have the haziest idea about it, btw, personally.)
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> Well, the 1st question is, -> Does JS itself compile to WebAssembly? If you can't take JS *itself* and make binary out of it, that would....leave all of US here in the lurch well proper!
> And, 2ndly - Is WebAssembly uncrackable?? IS IT??? I mean, no one's gonna take this *binary* stuff and put it on a torrent, are they? That would render the whole exercise fruitless and futile!! I mean, if there's a situation where a web app starts up and asks for a "regn no." before it fires up, *how hard is it to remove that check*?? If there's another situation where a web app is "calling home" WHILE RUNNING (say a separate thread doing this every 2 secs or whatever) and checking that it's a legit copy that's running on the browser-side - this check can't just "be removed", can it???!! :( I ask because this concerns all of us in the ng. MS Office is apparently going to be shifted to "the cloud", amongst one of many big names - so, the WORLD'S BEST hackers are going to very soon be pitting their wits against us web app devs. IF they're not already!
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> If (and any WebAsm guys on this group, please, talk) anyone knows, I'd love to know WTF is up...? :)
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> Cheers :)
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About "cloud" and WebAssembly (long talk about piracy!) Groo Vee <groovee@cyberdude.com> - 2020-08-07 03:23 -0700
  Re: About "cloud" and WebAssembly (long talk about piracy!) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-07 11:10 -0700
  Re: About "cloud" and WebAssembly (long talk about piracy!) Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-10 11:35 -0700

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