A recent Hacker News post looked at the reverse engineering of TikTok’s JavaScript virtual machine (VM). Many commenters assumed the VM was malicious, designed for invasive tracking or surveillance. But based on the VM’s behavior and string patterns, a more plausible explanation is that it’
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