Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium
I know this is a bit a pet peeve of mine, (and not a very popular opinion) but I think the browsers are doing too much, and WebAudio is a very good example of that.<p>Instead of standardizing something low-level to input/output audio and query the hardware, like an OS; it standardizes soooo many things and filters, including downmixers, panners, quadfilters and Convolution (for reverbs); which is where the issue is in this exploit.<p>The resulting complexity is huge, almost impossible to implement correctly in a cross-browser way, and a lot more code in C/C++ is written.<p>I do advocate simpler APIs for audio, low-level, and let JS or Wasm do the filtering, using the JS sandboxing model.<p>And, of course, this does not apply only to WebAudio, but I think WebAudio is a good symptom.