A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser

EDIT: Nevermind I misread, duh (thought you were refering to the input binary format rather than the target architecture). Still, very cool.

You still need the user to be on a domain controlled by the attacker, so a user will be able to spot that e.g. they're not on their real bank website if they just look at the URL. And there are already attacks which emulate the entire look and feel of a real bank website and you can only spot with a bad URL.

The key benefit of this approach is that you can put another website into your website like an iframe, and have full access to the website within your site (including e.g. reading and injecting JavaScript). But your site is still sandboxed, and users still have to be tricked into going to it in the first place. Then they need to be tricked into using the real website, inside the fake website, which at this point many people are smart enough to not do anyways.

Sweet!

As you note browsers are already a capable platform, so a compact compatibility layer is good way to add support for linux binaries. ABI virtualization really deserves to be more popular as an alternative or complement to containers and VMs. Perhaps it hasn't caught on (besides Proton/WINE) because there isn't a semi-standard format/platform like docker or virtualbox.

Haven't multiple people on HN built simple direct GUI libraries that work natively and on wasm? It would be cool for apps and game binaries with (sound, graphics, networking, controller support...) to be portable across linux and web (and probably windows, macos, android, etc.) with a compact compatibility layer.