Why “rce” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
There's also the question of why anyone would bother. You can factor RSA-1024 today in about a year with a national-lab-level supercomputer. Which 1k-bit RSA key would you shut…
by pseudohadamard · Sep 5, 2026
Isn't this exactly why there is a sandbox? What can the RCE actually do or obtain within the sandbox?
by mikeweiss · Sep 5, 2026
There's a risk that someone had been sitting on a sandbox escape that assumed having RCE inside the sandbox first, and so they'd been waiting for an RCE exactly like this one. T…
by pizlonator · Sep 5, 2026
> or they're negligent in budgeting for RCE discovery at all, or they assign zero value to the security of the Chromium platform underpinning Edge, Electron, et al I generally a…
by cogman10 · Sep 5, 2026
> JavaScript in the browser has no way to even express ... "list the contents of `C:\Users\Documents` and upload all of the files" this is besides the point, but javascript has…
by bawolff · Sep 5, 2026
If this would have included a full RCE chain with Sandbox escape Google would have paid significantly more. Having just a Sandbox RCE is neat, I've got some on my laptop current…
by strictnein · Sep 5, 2026
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