On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:18 AM Tim Moody <[email protected]> wrote:

> Discussions as to the security of iframes are ongoing, such as
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222807 and a number of others.
>
> It is time to resolve this once and for all. How can we adjudicate this
> question and say definitively that iframes mitigate the security risk of
> running Javascript in the user's browser if certain specified requirements
> are met?
>

The iframe sandboxing + enforcing CSP approach described in T222807 would
reduce the risk of running potentially dangerous javascript within a user's
browser, but not eliminate the risk entirely.  Unfortunately there have
been some related performance issues in exploring this approach (see:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169027#9342985) as well as some
criticism regarding whether or not this approach is in line with the
Wikimedia movement's values (see:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169027#9362252)

-- 
Scott Bassett
[email protected]
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